Confluent hasse diagrams

  • Authors:
  • David Eppstein;Joseph A. Simons

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine;Department of Computer Science, University of California, Irvine

  • Venue:
  • GD'11 Proceedings of the 19th international conference on Graph Drawing
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

We show that a transitively reduced digraph has a confluent upward drawing if and only if its reachability relation has order dimension at most two. In this case, we construct a confluent upward drawing with O(n2) features, in an O(n) ×O(n) grid in O(n2) time. For the digraphs representing series-parallel partial orders we show how to construct a drawing with O(n) features in an O(n) ×O(n) grid in O(n) time from a series-parallel decomposition of the partial order. Our drawings are optimal in the number of confluent junctions they use.