The complexity of several realizability problems for abstract topological graphs

  • Authors:
  • Jan Kynčl

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Applied Mathematics and Institute for Theoretical Computer Science, Faculty of Mathematics and Physics, Charles University, Prague, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • GD'07 Proceedings of the 15th international conference on Graph drawing
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

An abstract topological graph (briefly an AT-graph) is a pair A = (G,R) where G = (V,E) is a graph and R⊆(E 2) is a set of pairs of its edges. An AT-graph A is simply realizable if G can be drawn in the plane in such a way that each pair of edges from R crosses exactly once and no other pair crosses. We present a polynomial algorithm which decides whether a given complete AT-graph is simply realizable. On the other hand, we show that other similar realizability problems for (complete) AT-graphs are NP-hard.