Applications of the crossing number

  • Authors:
  • János Pach;Farhad Shahrokhi;Mario Szegedy

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Computer Science, City College-CUNY and Courant Institute, NYU;Dept. of Computer Science, University of North Texas;AT&T Bell Laboratories

  • Venue:
  • SCG '94 Proceedings of the tenth annual symposium on Computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

We show that any graph of n vertices that can be drawn in the plane with no k+1 pairwise crossing edges has at most cknlog2k−2n edges. This gives a partial answer to a dual version of a well-known problem of Avital-Hanani, Erdo&huml;s, Kupitz, Perles, and others. We also construct two point sets {p1,…,pn}, {q1,…,qn} in the plane such that any piecewise linear one-to-one mapping f:R2→R2 with f(pi)=qi (1≤i≤n) is composed of at least &OHgr;(n2) linear pieces. It follows from a recent result of Souvaine and Wenger that this bound is asymptotically tight. Both proofs are based on a relation between the crossing number and the bisection width of a graph.