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Every planar graph has a 4-page book embedding and this bound is tight. We show that every 1-planar graph, which is a graph that admits a drawing with at most one crossing per edge, has a 10-page book embedding. In addition, four pages are sometimes necessary and always sufficient if the planar skeleton, obtained from a 1-planar drawing by removing all crossed edges, has a Hamiltonian cycle.
It is well-known that every 3-connected planar graph has a unique planar embedding on the sphere. We study the extension to triangulated 1-planar graphs, T1P graphs for short, which admit an embedding in which each edge is crossed at most once and each face is a triangle, and obtain an algorithmic solution by a cubic time recognition algorithm that also counts the number of T1P embeddings. In particular, we show that every triangulated planar graph has a unique T1P embedding, although it may admit many 1-planar embeddings, and that any 6-connected T1P graph has a unique 1-planar embedding, except for full generalized two-stars that admit two or eight 1-planar embeddings. Our algorithm extends, refines, and corrects a previous recognition algorithm by Chen, Grigni and Papadimitiou (``Recognizing Hole-Free 4-Map Graphs in Cubic Time'', Algorithmica 45 (2006)).
A map is a partition of the sphere into regions that are labeled as countries or holes. The vertices of a map graph are the countries of a map. There is an edge if and only if the countries are adjacent and meet in at least one point. For a k-map graph, at most k countries meet in a point. A graph is k-planar if it can be drawn in the plane with at most k crossings per edge. A p-page book embedding of a graph is a linear ordering of the vertices and an assignment of the edges to p pages, so that there is no conflict for edges assigned to the same page. The minimum number of pages is the book thickness of a graph, also known as stack number or page number. We show that every k-map graph has a book embedding in $6\lfloor k/2 \rfloor+5$ pages, which, for n-vertex graphs, can be computed in O(kn) time from its map. Our result improves the best known upper bound. Towards a lower bound, it is shown that some k-map graphs need $\lfloor 3k/4 \rfloor$ pages. In passing, we obtain an improved upper bound of eleven pages for 1-planar graphs, which are subgraphs of 4-map graphs, and of 17 pages for optimal 2-planar graphs.
A graph is beyond-planar if it can be drawn in the plane with a specific restriction on crossings. Several types of beyond-planar graphs have been investigated, such as k-planar if every edge is crossed at most k times and RAC if edges can cross only at a right angle in a straight-line drawing. A graph is optimal if the number of edges coincides with the density for its type. Optimal graphs are special and are known only for some types of beyond-planar graphs, including 1-planar, 2-planar, and RAC graphs. For all types of beyond-planar graphs for which optimal graphs are known, we compute the range for optimal graphs, establish combinatorial properties, and show that every graph is a topological minor of an optimal graph. Note that the minor property is well-known for general beyond-planar graphs.
A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane so that each edge is crossed at most once. However, there are 1-planar graphs which do not admit a straight-line 1-planar drawing. We show that every 1-planar graph has a straight-line drawing with a two-coloring of the edges, so that edges of the same color do not cross. Hence, 1-planar graphs have geometric thickness two. In addition, each edge is crossed by edges with a common vertex if it is crossed more than twice. The drawings use high precision arithmetic with numbers with O(n log n) digits and can be computed in linear time from a 1-planar drawing
A graph is \emph{fan-crossing free} if it has a drawing in the plane so that each edge is crossed by independent edges, that is the crossing edges have distinct vertices. On the other hand, it is \emph{fan-crossing} if the crossing edges have a common vertex, that is they form a fan. Both are prominent examples for beyond-planar graphs. Further well-known beyond-planar classes are the $k$-planar, $k$-gap-planar, quasi-planar, and right angle crossing graphs. We use the subdivision, node-to-circle expansion and path-addition operations to distinguish all these graph classes. In particular, we show that the 2-subdivision and the node-to-circle expansion of any graph is fan-crossing free, which does not hold for fan-crossing and $k$-(gap)-planar graphs, respectively. Thereby, we obtain graphs that are fan-crossing free and neither fan-crossing nor $k$-(gap)-planar. Finally, we show that some graphs have a unique fan-crossing free embedding, that there are thinned maximal fan-crossing free graphs, and that the recognition problem for fan-crossing free graphs is NP-complete.
A graph is $k$-planar $(k \geq 1)$ if it can be drawn in the plane such that no edge is crossed more than $k$ times. A graph is $k$-quasi planar $(k \geq 2)$ if it can be drawn in the plane with no $k$ pairwise crossing edges. The families of $k$-planar and $k$-quasi planar graphs have been widely studied in the literature, and several bounds have been proven on their edge density. Nonetheless, only trivial results are known about the relationship between these two graph families. In this paper we prove that, for $k \geq 3$, every $k$-planar graph is $(k+1)$-quasi planar.
A simple topological graph is $k$-quasiplanar ($k\geq 2$) if it contains no $k$ pairwise crossing edges, and $k$-planar if no edge is crossed more than $k$ times. In this paper, we explore the relationship between $k$-planarity and $k$-quasiplanarity to show that, for $k \geq 2$, every $k$-planar simple topological graph can be transformed into a $(k+1)$-quasiplanar simple topological graph.
A fan is a set of edges with a single common endpoint. A graph is fan-crossing if it admits a drawing in the plane so that each edge is crossed by edges of a fan. It is fan-planar if, in addition, the common endpoint is on the same side of the crossed edge. A graph is adjacency-crossing if it admits a drawing so that crossing edges are adjacent. Then it excludes independent crossings which are crossings by edges with no common endpoint. Adjacency-crossing allows triangle-crossings in which an edge crosses the edges of a triangle, which is excluded at fan-crossing graphs. We show that every adjacency-crossing graph is fan-crossing. Thus triangle-crossings can be avoided. On the other hand, there are fan-crossing graphs that are not fan-planar, whereas for every fan-crossing graph there is a fan-planar graph on the same set of vertices and with the same number of edges. Hence, fan-crossing and fan-planar graphs are different, but they do not differ in their density with at most 5n - 10 edges for graphs of size n.
A graph is NIC-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane with at most one crossing per edge and such that two pairs of crossing edges share at most one common end vertex. NIC-planarity generalizes IC-planarity, which allows a vertex to be incident to at most one crossing edge, and specializes 1-planarity, which only requires at most one crossing per edge. We characterize embeddings of maximal NIC-planar graphs in terms of generalized planar dual graphs. The characterization is used to derive tight bounds on the density of maximal NIC-planar graphs which ranges between 3.2(n-2) and 3.6(n-2). Further, we prove that optimal NIC-planar graphs with 3.6(n-2) edges have a unique embedding and can be recognized in linear time, whereas the general recognition problem of NIC-planar graphs is NP-complete. In addition, we show that there are NIC-planar graphs that do not admit right angle crossing drawings, which distinguishes NIC-planar from IC-planar graphs.
A graph is IC-planar if it admits a drawing in the plane with at most one crossing per edge and such that two pairs of crossing edges share no common end vertex. IC-planarity specializes both NIC-planarity, which allows a pair of crossing edges to share at most one vertex, and 1-planarity, where each edge may be crossed at most once. We show that there are infinitely maximal IC-planar graphs with n vertices and 3n-5 edges and thereby prove a tight lower bound on the density of this class of graphs.
A shape visibility representation displays a graph so that each vertex is represented by an orthogonal polygon of a particular shape and for each edge there is a horizontal or vertical line of sight between the polygons assigned to its endvertices. Special shapes are rectangles, L, T, E and H-shapes, and caterpillars. A flat rectangle is a horizontal bar of height $ε>0$. A graph is 1-planar if there is a drawing in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once and is IC-planar if in addition no two crossing edges share a vertex. We show that every IC-planar graph has a flat rectangle visibility representation and that every 1-planar graph has a T-shape visibility representation. The representations use quadratic area and can be computed in linear time from a given embedding.
There is a graph reduction system so that every optimal 1-planar graph can be reduced to an irreducible extended wheel graph, provided the reductions are applied such that the given graph class is preserved. A graph is optimal 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane with at most one crossing per edge and is optimal if it has the maximum of 4n-8 edges. We show that the reduction system is context-sensitive so that the preservation of the graph class can be granted by local conditions which can be tested in constant time. Every optimal 1-planar graph G can be reduced to every extended wheel graph whose size is in a range from the (second) smallest one to some upper bound that depends on G. There is a reduction to the smallest extended wheel graph if G is not 5-connected, but not conversely. The reduction system has side effects and is non-deterministic and non-confluent. Nevertheless, reductions can be computed in linear time.
We prove that triangulated IC-planar and NIC-planar graphs can be recognized in cubic time. A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane with at most one crossing per edge. A drawing is IC-planar if, in addition, each vertex is incident to at most one crossing edge and NIC-planar if two pairs of crossing edges share at most one vertex. In a triangulated drawing each face is a triangle. In consequence, planar-maximal and maximal IC-planar and NIC-planar graphs can be recognized in O(n^5) time and maximum and optimal ones in O(n^3) time. In contrast, recognizing 3-connected IC-planar and NIC-planar graphs is NP-complete, even if the graphs are given with a rotation system which describes the cyclic ordering of the edges at each vertex. Our results complement similar ones for 1-planar graphs.
IC-planar graphs are those graphs that admit a drawing where no two crossed edges share an end-vertex and each edge is crossed at most once. They are a proper subfamily of the 1-planar graphs. Given an embedded IC-planar graph $G$ with $n$ vertices, we present an $O(n)$-time algorithm that computes a straight-line drawing of $G$ in quadratic area, and an $O(n^3)$-time algorithm that computes a straight-line drawing of $G$ with right-angle crossings in exponential area. Both these area requirements are worst-case optimal. We also show that it is NP-complete to test IC-planarity both in the general case and in the case in which a rotation system is fixed for the input graph. Furthermore, we describe a polynomial-time algorithm to test whether a set of matching edges can be added to a triangulated planar graph such that the resulting graph is IC-planar.
Path-addition is an operation that takes a graph and adds an internally vertex-disjoint path between two vertices together with a set of supplementary edges. Path-additions are just the opposite of taking minors. We show that some classes of graphs are closed under path-addition, including non-planar, right angle crossing, fan-crossing free, quasi-planar, (aligned) bar 1-visibility, and interval graphs, whereas others are not closed, including all subclasses of planar graphs, bounded treewidth, k-planar, fan-planar, outer-fan planar, outer-fan-crossing free, and bar (1,j)-visibility graphs.
A graph with n vertices is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once, and is optimal if it has the maximum of 4n-8 edges. We show that optimal 1-planar graphs can be recognized in linear time. Our algorithm implements a graph reduction system with two rules, which can be used to reduce every optimal 1-planar graph to an irreducible extended wheel graph. The graph reduction system is non-deterministic, constraint, and non-confluent.
In a book embedding of a graph G, the vertices of G are placed in order along a straight-line called spine of the book, and the edges of G are drawn on a set of half-planes, called the pages of the book, such that two edges drawn on a page do not cross each other. The minimum number of pages in which a graph can be embedded is called the book-thickness or the page-number of the graph. It is known that every planar graph has a book embedding on at most four pages. Here we investigate the book-embeddings of 1-planar graphs. A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane such that each edge is crossed at most once. We prove that every 1-planar graph has a book embedding on at most 16 pages and every 3-connected 1-planar graph has a book embedding on at most 12 pages. The drawings can be computed in linear time from any given 1-planar embedding of the graph.