On graph thickness, geometric thickness, and separator theorems

  • Authors:
  • Christian A. Duncan

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston, LA 71270, USA

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We investigate the relationship between geometric thickness, thickness, outerthickness, and arboricity of graphs. In particular, we prove that all graphs with arboricity two or outerthickness two have geometric thickness O(logn). The technique used can be extended to other classes of graphs so long as a separator theorem exists. For example, we can apply it to show the known bound that thickness two graphs have geometric thickness O(n), yielding a simple construction in the process.