18 research outputs found
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
Generalised k-Steiner tree problems in normed planes
The 1-Steiner tree problem, the problem of constructing a Steiner minimum tree containing at most one Steiner point, has been solved in the Euclidean plane by Georgakopoulos and Papadimitriou using plane subdivisions called oriented Dirichlet cell partitions. Their algorithm produces an optimal solution within time. In this paper we generalise their approach in order to solve the -Steiner tree problem, in which the Steiner minimum tree may contain up to Steiner points for a given constant . We also extend their approach further to encompass arbitrary normed planes, and to solve a much wider class of problems, including the -bottleneck Steiner tree problem and other generalised -Steiner tree problems. We show that, for any fixed , such problems can be solved in time
Tree-partitions of k-trees with applications in graph layout
Abstract. A tree-partition of a graph is a partition of its vertices into ‘bags ’ such that contracting each bag into a single vertex gives a forest. It is proved that every k-tree has a tree-partition such that each bag induces a (k − 1)-tree, amongst other properties. Applications of this result to two well-studied models of graph layout are presented. First it is proved that graphs of bounded tree-width have bounded queuenumber, thus resolving an open problem due to Ganley and Heath [2001] and disproving a conjecture of Pemmaraju [1992]. This result provides renewed hope for the positive resolution of a number of open problems regarding queue layouts. In a related result, it is proved that graphs of bounded tree-width have three-dimensional straight-line grid drawings with linear volume, which represents the largest known class of graphs with such drawings.
Graph Treewidth and Geometric Thickness Parameters
Consider a drawing of a graph G in the plane such that crossing edges are coloured differently. The minimum number of colours, taken over all drawings of G, is the classical graph parameter thickness. By restricting the edges to be straight, we obtain the geometric thickness. By additionally 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 k, the maximum thickness and the maximum geometric thickness both equal ⌈k/2⌉. 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 k, the maximum book thickness equals k if k ≤ 2 and equals k + 1 if k ≥ 3. 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