21 research outputs found
The crossing number of locally twisted cubes
The {\it crossing number} of a graph is the minimum number of pairwise
intersections of edges in a drawing of . Motivated by the recent work
[Faria, L., Figueiredo, C.M.H. de, Sykora, O., Vrt'o, I.: An improved upper
bound on the crossing number of the hypercube. J. Graph Theory {\bf 59},
145--161 (2008)] which solves the upper bound conjecture on the crossing number
of -dimensional hypercube proposed by Erd\H{o}s and Guy, we give upper and
lower bounds of the crossing number of locally twisted cube, which is one of
variants of hypercube.Comment: 17 pages, 12 figure
Toward the Rectilinear Crossing Number of : New Drawings, Upper Bounds, and Asymptotics
Scheinerman and Wilf (1994) assert that `an important open problem in the
study of graph embeddings is to determine the rectilinear crossing number of
the complete graph K_n.' A rectilinear drawing of K_n is an arrangement of n
vertices in the plane, every pair of which is connected by an edge that is a
line segment. We assume that no three vertices are collinear, and that no three
edges intersect in a point unless that point is an endpoint of all three. The
rectilinear crossing number of K_n is the fewest number of edge crossings
attainable over all rectilinear drawings of K_n.
For each n we construct a rectilinear drawing of K_n that has the fewest
number of edge crossings and the best asymptotics known to date. Moreover, we
give some alternative infinite families of drawings of K_n with good
asymptotics. Finally, we mention some old and new open problems.Comment: 13 Page
The number of crossings in multigraphs with no empty lens
Let be a multigraph with vertices and edges, drawn in the
plane such that any two parallel edges form a simple closed curve with at least
one vertex in its interior and at least one vertex in its exterior. Pach and
T\'oth (2018) extended the Crossing Lemma of Ajtai et al. (1982) and Leighton
(1983) by showing that if no two adjacent edges cross and every pair of
nonadjacent edges cross at most once, then the number of edge crossings in
is at least , for a suitable constant . The situation
turns out to be quite different if nonparallel edges are allowed to cross any
number of times. It is proved that in this case the number of crossings in
is at least . The order of magnitude of this bound
cannot be improved.Comment: Appears in the Proceedings of the 26th International Symposium on
Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2018
Degenerate Crossing Numbers
Let G be a graph with n vertices and e≥4n edges, drawn in the plane in such a way that if two or more edges (arcs) share an interior point p, then they properly cross one another at p. It is shown that the number of crossing points, counted without multiplicity, is at least constant timese and that the order of magnitude of this bound cannot be improved. If, in addition, two edges are allowed to cross only at most once, then the number of crossing points must exceed constant times(e/n)
A successful concept for measuring non-planarity of graphs: the crossing number
AbstractThis paper surveys how the concept of crossing number, which used to be familiar only to a limited group of specialists, emerges as a significant graph parameter. This paper has dual purposes: first, it reviews foundational, historical, and philosophical issues of crossing numbers, second, it shows a new lower bound for crossing numbers. This new lower bound may be helpful in estimating crossing numbers