On the Maximum Number of Edges in Topological Graphs with no Four Pairwise Crossing Edges

  • Authors:
  • Eyal Ackerman

  • Affiliations:
  • Technion—Israel Institute of Technology, Computer Science Dept., 32000, Haifa, Israel

  • Venue:
  • Discrete & Computational Geometry
  • Year:
  • 2009

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Abstract

A topological graph is called k -quasi-planar if it does not contain k pairwise crossing edges. It is conjectured that for every fixed k, the maximum number of edges in a k-quasi-planar graph on n vertices is O(n). We provide an affirmative answer to the case k=4.