On crossing numbers of geometric proximity graphs

  • Authors:
  • Bernardo M. Ábrego;Ruy Fabila-Monroy;Silvia Fernández-Merchant;David Flores-Peñaloza;Ferran Hurtado;Vera Sacristán;Maria Saumell

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge, CA, United States;Departamento de Matemáticas, CINVESTAV, Mexico, DF, Mexico;Department of Mathematics, California State University, Northridge, CA, United States;Departamento de Matemáticas, Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico;Departament de Matemítica Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Departament de Matemítica Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain;Departament de Matemítica Aplicada II, Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Barcelona, Spain

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

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Abstract

Let P be a set of n points in the plane. A geometric proximity graph on P is a graph where two points are connected by a straight-line segment if they satisfy some prescribed proximity rule. We consider four classes of higher order proximity graphs, namely, the k-nearest neighbor graph, the k-relative neighborhood graph, the k-Gabriel graph and the k-Delaunay graph. For k=0 (k=1 in the case of the k-nearest neighbor graph) these graphs are plane, but for higher values of k in general they contain crossings. In this paper, we provide lower and upper bounds on their minimum and maximum number of crossings. We give general bounds and we also study particular cases that are especially interesting from the viewpoint of applications. These cases include the 1-Delaunay graph and the k-nearest neighbor graph for small values of k.