Representing Hypergraphs by Point-Line Incidences

Alexander Dobler, Stephen Kobourov, Debajyoti Mondal, Martin Nöllenburg

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Abstract

We consider hypergraph visualizations that represent vertices as points in the plane and hyperedges as curves passing through the points of their incident vertices. Specifically, we consider several different variants of this problem by (a) restricting the curves to be lines or line segments, (b) allowing two curves to cross if they do not share an element, or not; and (c) allowing two curves to overlap or not. We show ∃R-hardness for six of the eight resulting decision problem variants and describe polynomial-time algorithms in some restricted settings.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationSOFSEM 2025
Subtitle of host publicationTheory and Practice of Computer Science - 50th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2025, Proceedings
EditorsRastislav Královič, Věra Kůrková
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages241-254
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783031826696
DOIs
StatePublished - 2025
Event50th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2025 - Bratislava, Slovakia
Duration: Jan 20 2025Jan 23 2025

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Volume15538 LNCS
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference50th International Conference on Current Trends in Theory and Practice of Computer Science, SOFSEM 2025
Country/TerritorySlovakia
CityBratislava
Period1/20/251/23/25

Keywords

  • ETR-hardness
  • Hypergraph visualization
  • Point-line incidence

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • General Computer Science

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