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Two-Page Book Embeddings of 4-Planar Graphs
Back in the Eighties, Heath showed that every 3-planar graph is
subhamiltonian and asked whether this result can be extended to a class of
graphs of degree greater than three. In this paper we affirmatively answer this
question for the class of 4-planar graphs. Our contribution consists of two
algorithms: The first one is limited to triconnected graphs, but runs in linear
time and uses existing methods for computing hamiltonian cycles in planar
graphs. The second one, which solves the general case of the problem, is a
quadratic-time algorithm based on the book-embedding viewpoint of the problem.Comment: 21 pages, 16 Figures. A shorter version is to appear at STACS 201
Optimal Acyclic Hamiltonian Path Completion for Outerplanar Triangulated st-Digraphs (with Application to Upward Topological Book Embeddings)
Given an embedded planar acyclic digraph G, we define the problem of "acyclic
hamiltonian path completion with crossing minimization (Acyclic-HPCCM)" to be
the problem of determining an hamiltonian path completion set of edges such
that, when these edges are embedded on G, they create the smallest possible
number of edge crossings and turn G to a hamiltonian digraph. Our results
include:
--We provide a characterization under which a triangulated st-digraph G is
hamiltonian.
--For an outerplanar triangulated st-digraph G, we define the st-polygon
decomposition of G and, based on its properties, we develop a linear-time
algorithm that solves the Acyclic-HPCCM problem with at most one crossing per
edge of G.
--For the class of st-planar digraphs, we establish an equivalence between
the Acyclic-HPCCM problem and the problem of determining an upward 2-page
topological book embedding with minimum number of spine crossings. We infer
(based on this equivalence) for the class of outerplanar triangulated
st-digraphs an upward topological 2-page book embedding with minimum number of
spine crossings and at most one spine crossing per edge.
To the best of our knowledge, it is the first time that edge-crossing
minimization is studied in conjunction with the acyclic hamiltonian completion
problem and the first time that an optimal algorithm with respect to spine
crossing minimization is presented for upward topological book embeddings
Crossing Minimization for 1-page and 2-page Drawings of Graphs with Bounded Treewidth
We investigate crossing minimization for 1-page and 2-page book drawings. We
show that computing the 1-page crossing number is fixed-parameter tractable
with respect to the number of crossings, that testing 2-page planarity is
fixed-parameter tractable with respect to treewidth, and that computing the
2-page crossing number is fixed-parameter tractable with respect to the sum of
the number of crossings and the treewidth of the input graph. We prove these
results via Courcelle's theorem on the fixed-parameter tractability of
properties expressible in monadic second order logic for graphs of bounded
treewidth.Comment: Graph Drawing 201
Graph Treewidth and Geometric Thickness Parameters
Consider a drawing of a graph in the plane such that crossing edges are
coloured differently. The minimum number of colours, taken over all drawings of
, is the classical graph parameter "thickness". By restricting the edges to
be straight, we obtain the "geometric thickness". By further restricting the
vertices to be in convex position, we obtain the "book thickness". This paper
studies the relationship between these parameters and treewidth.
Our first main result states that for graphs of treewidth , the maximum
thickness and the maximum geometric thickness both equal .
This says that the lower bound for thickness can be matched by an upper bound,
even in the more restrictive geometric setting. Our second main result states
that for graphs of treewidth , the maximum book thickness equals if and equals if . This refutes a conjecture of Ganley and
Heath [Discrete Appl. Math. 109(3):215-221, 2001]. Analogous results are proved
for outerthickness, arboricity, and star-arboricity.Comment: A preliminary version of this paper appeared in the "Proceedings of
the 13th International Symposium on Graph Drawing" (GD '05), Lecture Notes in
Computer Science 3843:129-140, Springer, 2006. The full version was published
in Discrete & Computational Geometry 37(4):641-670, 2007. That version
contained a false conjecture, which is corrected on page 26 of this versio
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