Removing Independently Even Crossings

  • Authors:
  • Michael J. Pelsmajer;Marcus Schaefer;Daniel Štefankovič

  • Affiliations:
  • pelsmajer@iit.edu;mschaefer@cdm.depaul.edu;stefanko@cs.rochester.edu

  • Venue:
  • SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2010

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Abstract

We show that $\mathrm{cr}(G)\leq({2\,\mathrm{iocr}(G)\atop2})$, settling an open problem of Pach and Tóth [Geombinatorics, 9 (2000), pp. 194-207]. Moreover, $\mathrm{iocr}(G)=\mathrm{cr}(G)$ if $\mathrm{iocr}(G)\leq2$.