scholarly journals The Maximum of the Maximum Rectilinear Crossing Numbers of $d$-Regular Graphs of Order $n$

10.37236/143 ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Matthew Alpert ◽  
Elie Feder ◽  
Heiko Harborth

We extend known results regarding the maximum rectilinear crossing number of the cycle graph ($C_n$) and the complete graph ($K_n$) to the class of general $d$-regular graphs $R_{n,d}$. We present the generalized star drawings of the $d$-regular graphs $S_{n,d}$ of order $n$ where $n+d\equiv 1 \pmod 2 $ and prove that they maximize the maximum rectilinear crossing numbers. A star-like drawing of $S_{n,d}$ for $n \equiv d \equiv 0 \pmod 2$ is introduced and we conjecture that this drawing maximizes the maximum rectilinear crossing numbers, too. We offer a simpler proof of two results initially proved by Furry and Kleitman as partial results in the direction of this conjecture.

Mathematics ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (5) ◽  
pp. 525
Author(s):  
Javier Rodrigo ◽  
Susana Merchán ◽  
Danilo Magistrali ◽  
Mariló López

In this paper, we improve the lower bound on the minimum number of  ≤k-edges in sets of n points in general position in the plane when k is close to n2. As a consequence, we improve the current best lower bound of the rectilinear crossing number of the complete graph Kn for some values of n.


2019 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 137-146
Author(s):  
STEFAN BEREZNY ◽  
MICHAL STAS ◽  
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The main purpose of this article is broaden known results concerning crossing numbers for join of graphs of order six. We give the crossing number of the join product G + Dn, where the graph G consists of one 5-cycle and of one isolated vertex, and Dn consists on n isolated vertices. The proof is done with the help of software that generates all cyclic permutations for a given number k, and creates a new graph COG for calculating the distances between all vertices of the graph. Finally, by adding some edges to the graph G, we are able to obtain the crossing numbers of the join product with the discrete graph Dn and with the path Pn on n vertices for other two graphs.


2013 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 27-32
Author(s):  
MARIAN KLESC ◽  
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JANA PETRILLOVA ◽  
MATUS VALO ◽  
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The crossing number cr(G) of a graph G is the minimal number of crossings over all drawings of G in the plane. The exact crossing number is known only for few specific families of graphs. Cartesian products of two graphs belong to the first families of graphs for which the crossing number has been studied. Some results concerning crossing numbers are also known for join products of two graphs. In the paper, we start to collect the crossing numbers for the strong product of graphs, namely for the strong product of two paths.


2020 ◽  
Vol 29 (04) ◽  
pp. 2050019
Author(s):  
Yuanan Diao

For an unoriented link [Formula: see text], let [Formula: see text] be the ropelength of [Formula: see text]. It is known that in general [Formula: see text] is at least of the order [Formula: see text], and at most of the order [Formula: see text] where [Formula: see text] is the minimum crossing number of [Formula: see text]. Furthermore, it is known that there exist families of (infinitely many) links with the property [Formula: see text]. A long standing open conjecture states that if [Formula: see text] is alternating, then [Formula: see text] is at least of the order [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we show that the braid index of a link also gives a lower bound of its ropelength. More specifically, we show that there exists a constant [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] for any [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text] is the largest braid index among all braid indices corresponding to all possible orientation assignments of the components of [Formula: see text] (called the maximum braid index of [Formula: see text]). Consequently, [Formula: see text] for any link [Formula: see text] whose maximum braid index is proportional to its crossing number. In the case of alternating links, the maximum braid indices for many of them are proportional to their crossing numbers hence the above conjecture holds for these alternating links.


2014 ◽  
Vol 6 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
V. J. Kaneria ◽  
H. M. Makadia ◽  
Meera Meghpara
Keyword(s):  

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (8) ◽  
pp. 831-839 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dan McQuillan ◽  
R. Bruce Richter

1997 ◽  
Vol 6 (3) ◽  
pp. 353-358 ◽  
Author(s):  
LÁSZLÓ A. SZÉKELY

We show that an old but not well-known lower bound for the crossing number of a graph yields short proofs for a number of bounds in discrete plane geometry which were considered hard before: the number of incidences among points and lines, the maximum number of unit distances among n points, the minimum number of distinct distances among n points.


2004 ◽  
Vol 13 (07) ◽  
pp. 857-866 ◽  
Author(s):  
YUANAN DIAO

It has long been conjectured that the crossing numbers of links are additive under the connected sum of links. This is a difficult problem in knot theory and has been open for more than 100 years. In fact, many questions of much weaker conditions are still open. For instance, it is not known whether Cr(K1#K2)≥Cr(K1) or Cr(K1#K2)≥Cr(K2) holds in general, here K1#K2 is the connected sum of K1 and K2 and Cr(K) stands for the crossing number of the link K. However, for alternating links K1 and K2, Cr(K1#K2)=Cr(K1)+Cr(K2) does hold. On the other hand, if K1 is an alternating link and K2 is any link, then we have Cr(K1#K2)≥Cr(K1). In this paper, we show that there exists a wide class of links over which the crossing number is additive under the connected sum operation. This class is different from the class of all alternating links. It includes all torus knots and many alternating links. Furthermore, if K1 is a connected sum of any given number of links from this class and K2 is a non-trivial knot, we prove that Cr(K1#K2)≥Cr(K1)+3.


2012 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 67-75
Author(s):  
MARIAN KLESC ◽  
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JANA PETRILLOVA ◽  

Kulli at al. started to characterize line graphs with crossing number one. In this paper, the similar problems were solved for the Cartesian products of two graphs. The necessary and sufficient conditions are given for all pairs of graphs G1 and G2 for which the crossing number of their Cartesian product G1 × G2 is one or two.


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