The geometric thickness of low degree graphs

Christian A. Duncan; David Eppstein; Stephen G. Kobourov

doi:10.1145/997817.997868

The geometric thickness of low degree graphs

Christian A. Duncan
, David Eppstein
, Stephen G. Kobourov

Computer Science

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Abstract

We prove that the geometric thickness of graphs whose maximum degree is no more than four is two. All of our algorithms run in O(n) time, where n is the number of vertices in the graph. In our proofs, we present an embedding algorithm for graphs with maximum degree three that uses an n × n grid and a more complex algorithm for embedding a graph with maximum degree four. We also show a variation using orthogonal edges for maximum degree four graphs that also uses an n × n grid. The results have implications in graph theory, graph drawing, and VLSI design.

Original language	English (US)
Pages	340-346
Number of pages	7
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1145/997817.997868
State	Published - 2004
Event	Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SCG'04) - Brooklyn, NY, United States Duration: Jun 9 2004 → Jun 11 2004

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Other	Proceedings of the Twentieth Annual Symposium on Computational Geometry (SCG'04)
Country/Territory	United States
City	Brooklyn, NY
Period	6/9/04 → 6/11/04

Keywords

Geometric thickness
Graph drawing
Graph thickness
Layered graphs
Rectangle visibility
Simultaneous embeddings

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Theoretical Computer Science
Geometry and Topology
Computational Mathematics

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