A Lower Bound on the Area Requirements of Series-Parallel Graphs

  • Authors:
  • Fabrizio Frati

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Informatica e Automazione, Università di Roma Tre,

  • Venue:
  • Graph-Theoretic Concepts in Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

We show that there exist series-parallel graphs requiring *** (n logn ) area in any straight-line or poly-line grid drawing. Such a result is achieved by proving that, in any straight-line or poly-line drawing of K 2,n , one side of the bounding box has length *** (n ).