Aligned drawings of planar graphs

Tamara Mchedlidze, Marcel Radermacher, Ignaz Rutter

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Abstract

Let G be a graph embedded in the plane and let A be an arrangement of pseudolines intersecting the drawing of G. An aligned drawing of G and A is a planar polyline drawing Γ of G with an arrangement A of lines so that Γ and A are homeomorphic to G and A We show that if A is stretchable and every edge e either entirely lies on a pseudoline or intersects at most one pseudoline, then G and A have a straight-line aligned drawing. In order to prove these results, we strengthen the result of Da Lozzo et al. [5], and prove that a planar graph G and a single pseudoline L have an aligned drawing with a prescribed convex drawing of the outer face. We also study the more general version of the problem where only a set of vertices is given and we need to determine whether they can be collinear. We show that the problem is NP hard but fixed-parameter tractable.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationGraph Drawing and Network Visualization - 25th International Symposium, GD 2017, Revised Selected Papers
EditorsF. Frati, K.-L. Ma
Place of PublicationBerlin
PublisherSpringer
Pages3-16
Number of pages14
ISBN (Print)9783319739144
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2018
Event25th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2017) - Boston, United States
Duration: 25 Sept 201727 Sept 2017
Conference number: 25
https://gd2017.ccis.northeastern.edu/

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume10692
ISSN (Print)0302-9743
ISSN (Electronic)1611-3349

Conference

Conference25th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2017)
Abbreviated titleGD 2017
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityBoston
Period25/09/1727/09/17
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Funding

Work was partially supported by grant WA 654/21-1 of the German Research Foundation (DFG).

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