English

Stabbing Faces By a Convex Curve

Computational Geometry 2025-08-26 v1

Abstract

We prove that, for every plane graph GG and every smooth convex curve CC not on a single line, there exists a straight-line drawing of GG for which every face is crossed by CC.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.2508.17549,
  title  = {Stabbing Faces By a Convex Curve},
  author = {David Eppstein},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.17549},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

10 pages, 7 figures. Full version (with appendix) of a paper to appear at the 33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2025)

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