48 research outputs found
Schnyder decompositions for regular plane graphs and application to drawing
Schnyder woods are decompositions of simple triangulations into three
edge-disjoint spanning trees crossing each other in a specific way. In this
article, we define a generalization of Schnyder woods to -angulations (plane
graphs with faces of degree ) for all . A \emph{Schnyder
decomposition} is a set of spanning forests crossing each other in a
specific way, and such that each internal edge is part of exactly of the
spanning forests. We show that a Schnyder decomposition exists if and only if
the girth of the -angulation is . As in the case of Schnyder woods
(), there are alternative formulations in terms of orientations
("fractional" orientations when ) and in terms of corner-labellings.
Moreover, the set of Schnyder decompositions on a fixed -angulation of girth
is a distributive lattice. We also show that the structures dual to
Schnyder decompositions (on -regular plane graphs of mincut rooted at a
vertex ) are decompositions into spanning trees rooted at such
that each edge not incident to is used in opposite directions by two
trees. Additionally, for even values of , we show that a subclass of
Schnyder decompositions, which are called even, enjoy additional properties
that yield a reduced formulation; in the case d=4, these correspond to
well-studied structures on simple quadrangulations (2-orientations and
partitions into 2 spanning trees). In the case d=4, the dual of even Schnyder
decompositions yields (planar) orthogonal and straight-line drawing algorithms.
For a 4-regular plane graph of mincut 4 with vertices plus a marked
vertex , the vertices of are placed on a grid according to a permutation pattern, and in the orthogonal drawing
each of the edges of has exactly one bend. Embedding
also the marked vertex is doable at the cost of two additional rows and
columns and 8 additional bends for the 4 edges incident to . We propose a
further compaction step for the drawing algorithm and show that the obtained
grid-size is strongly concentrated around for a uniformly
random instance with vertices
Mixing Times of Markov Chains on Degree Constrained Orientations of Planar Graphs
We study Markov chains for -orientations of plane graphs, these are
orientations where the outdegree of each vertex is prescribed by the value of a
given function . The set of -orientations of a plane graph has
a natural distributive lattice structure. The moves of the up-down Markov chain
on this distributive lattice corresponds to reversals of directed facial cycles
in the -orientation. We have a positive and several negative results
regarding the mixing time of such Markov chains.
A 2-orientation of a plane quadrangulation is an orientation where every
inner vertex has outdegree 2. We show that there is a class of plane
quadrangulations such that the up-down Markov chain on the 2-orientations of
these quadrangulations is slowly mixing. On the other hand the chain is rapidly
mixing on 2-orientations of quadrangulations with maximum degree at most 4.
Regarding examples for slow mixing we also revisit the case of 3-orientations
of triangulations which has been studied before by Miracle et al.. Our examples
for slow mixing are simpler and have a smaller maximum degree, Finally we
present the first example of a function and a class of plane
triangulations of constant maximum degree such that the up-down Markov chain on
the -orientations of these graphs is slowly mixing
Bijections for Baxter Families and Related Objects
The Baxter number can be written as . These
numbers have first appeared in the enumeration of so-called Baxter
permutations; is the number of Baxter permutations of size , and
is the number of Baxter permutations with descents and
rises. With a series of bijections we identify several families of
combinatorial objects counted by the numbers . Apart from Baxter
permutations, these include plane bipolar orientations with vertices and
faces, 2-orientations of planar quadrangulations with white and
black vertices, certain pairs of binary trees with left and
right leaves, and a family of triples of non-intersecting lattice paths. This
last family allows us to determine the value of as an
application of the lemma of Gessel and Viennot. The approach also allows us to
count certain other subfamilies, e.g., alternating Baxter permutations, objects
with symmetries and, via a bijection with a class of plan bipolar orientations
also Schnyder woods of triangulations, which are known to be in bijection with
3-orientations.Comment: 31 pages, 22 figures, submitted to JCT
Contact Representations of Graphs in 3D
We study contact representations of graphs in which vertices are represented
by axis-aligned polyhedra in 3D and edges are realized by non-zero area common
boundaries between corresponding polyhedra. We show that for every 3-connected
planar graph, there exists a simultaneous representation of the graph and its
dual with 3D boxes. We give a linear-time algorithm for constructing such a
representation. This result extends the existing primal-dual contact
representations of planar graphs in 2D using circles and triangles. While
contact graphs in 2D directly correspond to planar graphs, we next study
representations of non-planar graphs in 3D. In particular we consider
representations of optimal 1-planar graphs. A graph is 1-planar if there exists
a drawing in the plane where each edge is crossed at most once, and an optimal
n-vertex 1-planar graph has the maximum (4n - 8) number of edges. We describe a
linear-time algorithm for representing optimal 1-planar graphs without
separating 4-cycles with 3D boxes. However, not every optimal 1-planar graph
admits a representation with boxes. Hence, we consider contact representations
with the next simplest axis-aligned 3D object, L-shaped polyhedra. We provide a
quadratic-time algorithm for representing optimal 1-planar graph with L-shaped
polyhedra
Transversal structures on triangulations: a combinatorial study and straight-line drawings
This article focuses on a combinatorial structure specific to triangulated
plane graphs with quadrangular outer face and no separating triangle, which are
called irreducible triangulations. The structure has been introduced by Xin He
under the name of regular edge-labelling and consists of two bipolar
orientations that are transversal. For this reason, the terminology used here
is that of transversal structures. The main results obtained in the article are
a bijection between irreducible triangulations and ternary trees, and a
straight-line drawing algorithm for irreducible triangulations. For a random
irreducible triangulation with vertices, the grid size of the drawing is
asymptotically with high probability up to an additive
error of \cO(\sqrt{n}). In contrast, the best previously known algorithm for
these triangulations only guarantees a grid size .Comment: 42 pages, the second version is shorter, focusing on the bijection
(with application to counting) and on the graph drawing algorithm. The title
has been slightly change
4-labelings and grid embeddings of plane quadrangulations
AbstractA straight-line drawing of a planar graph G is a closed rectangle-of-influence drawing if for each edge uv, the closed axis-parallel rectangle with opposite corners u and v contains no other vertices. We show that each quadrangulation on n vertices has a closed rectangle-of-influence drawing on the (n−3)×(n−3) grid.The algorithm is based on angle labeling and simple face counting in regions. This answers the question of what would be a grid embedding of quadrangulations analogous to Schnyder’s classical algorithm for embedding triangulations and extends previous results on book embeddings for quadrangulations from Felsner, Huemer, Kappes, and Orden.A further compaction step yields a straight-line drawing of a quadrangulation on the (⌈n2⌉−1)×(⌈3n4⌉−1) grid. The advantage over other existing algorithms is that it is not necessary to add edges to the quadrangulation to make it 4-connected
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Combinatorics
Combinatorics is a fundamental mathematical discipline which focuses on the study of discrete objects and their properties. The current workshop brought together researchers from diverse fields such as Extremal and Probabilistic Combinatorics, Discrete Geometry, Graph theory, Combinatorial Optimization and Algebraic Combinatorics for a fruitful interaction. New results, methods and developments and future challenges were discussed. This is a report on the meeting containing abstracts of the presentations and a summary of the problem session
Binary Labelings for Plane Quadrangulations and their Relatives
Graphs and Algorithm