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Inserting Multiple Edges into a Planar Graph

Markus Chimani·Petr Hliněný
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Let $G$ be a connected planar (but not yet embedded) graph and $F$ a set of additional edges not yet in $G$. The {multiple edge insertion} problem (MEI) asks for a drawing of $G+F$ with the minimum number of pairwise edge crossings, such that the subdrawing of $G$ is plane. An optimal solution to this problem approximates the crossing number of the graph $G+F$. Finding an exact solution to MEI is NP-hard for general $F$, but linear time solvable for the special case of $|F|=1$ (SODA01, Algorithmica) or when all of $F$ are incident to a new vertex (SODA09). The complexity for general $F$ but with constant $k=|F|$ was open, but algorithms both with relative and absolute approximation guarantees have been presented (SODA11, ICALP11). We show that the problem is fixed parameter tractable (FPT) in $k$ for biconnected $G$, or if the cut vertices of $G$ have degrees bounded by a constant. We give the first exact algorithm for this problem; it requires only $O(|V(G)|)$ time for any constant $k$.

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Markus Chimani, Petr Hliněný. 2015-09-26. Inserting Multiple Edges into a Planar Graph. https://arxiv.org/abs/1509.07952

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