k-Quasi-planar graphs

  • Authors:
  • Andrew Suk

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Basic Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Switzerland

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

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Abstract

A topological graph is k-quasi-planar if it does not contain k pairwise crossing edges. A topological graph is simple if every pair of its edges intersect at most once (either at a vertex or at their intersection). In 1996, Pach, Shahrokhi, and Szegedy [16] showed that every n-vertex simple k-quasi-planar graph contains at most $O\left(n(\log n)^{2k-4}\right)$ edges. This upper bound was recently improved (for large k) by Fox and Pach [8] to n(logn)O(logk). In this note, we show that all such graphs contain at most $(n\log^2n )2^{\alpha^{c_k}(n)}$ edges, where α(n) denotes the inverse Ackermann function and ck is a constant that depends only on k.