Crossings between non-homotopic edges

Pach J, Tardos G, Tóth G. 2020. Crossings between non-homotopic edges. 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization. GD: Graph Drawing and Network VisualizationLNCS vol. 12590, 359–371.

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Pach, JánosISTA; Tardos, Gábor; Tóth, Géza
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We call a multigraph non-homotopic if it can be drawn in the plane in such a way that no two edges connecting the same pair of vertices can be continuously transformed into each other without passing through a vertex, and no loop can be shrunk to its end-vertex in the same way. It is easy to see that a non-homotopic multigraph on n>1 vertices can have arbitrarily many edges. We prove that the number of crossings between the edges of a non-homotopic multigraph with n vertices and m>4n edges is larger than cm2n for some constant c>0 , and that this bound is tight up to a polylogarithmic factor. We also show that the lower bound is not asymptotically sharp as n is fixed and m⟶∞ .
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2020-09-20
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28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization
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Supported by the National Research, Development and Innovation Office, NKFIH, KKP-133864, K-131529, K-116769, K-132696, by the Higher Educational Institutional Excellence Program 2019 NKFIH-1158-6/2019, the Austrian Science Fund (FWF), grant Z 342-N31, by the Ministry of Education and Science of the Russian Federation MegaGrant No. 075-15-2019-1926, and by the ERC Synergy Grant “Dynasnet” No. 810115. A full version can be found at https://arxiv.org/abs/2006.14908.
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12590
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359-371
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GD: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization
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Virtual, Online
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2020-09-16 – 2020-09-18
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Pach J, Tardos G, Tóth G. Crossings between non-homotopic edges. In: 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization. Vol 12590. LNCS. Springer Nature; 2020:359-371. doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68766-3_28
Pach, J., Tardos, G., & Tóth, G. (2020). Crossings between non-homotopic edges. In 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (Vol. 12590, pp. 359–371). Virtual, Online: Springer Nature. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68766-3_28
Pach, János, Gábor Tardos, and Géza Tóth. “Crossings between Non-Homotopic Edges.” In 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, 12590:359–71. LNCS. Springer Nature, 2020. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-68766-3_28.
J. Pach, G. Tardos, and G. Tóth, “Crossings between non-homotopic edges,” in 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, Virtual, Online, 2020, vol. 12590, pp. 359–371.
Pach J, Tardos G, Tóth G. 2020. Crossings between non-homotopic edges. 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization. GD: Graph Drawing and Network VisualizationLNCS vol. 12590, 359–371.
Pach, János, et al. “Crossings between Non-Homotopic Edges.” 28th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, vol. 12590, Springer Nature, 2020, pp. 359–71, doi:10.1007/978-3-030-68766-3_28.
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