Right angle crossing graphs and 1-planarity

  • Authors:
  • Peter Eades;Giuseppe Liotta

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Information Technologies, University of Sydney, Australia;Dip. di Ingegneria Elettronica e dell'Informazione, Universití degli Studi di Perugia, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2013

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Abstract

A Right Angle Crossing Graph (also called a RAC graph for short) is a graph that has a straight-line drawing where any two crossing edges are orthogonal to each other. A 1-planar graph is a graph that has a drawing where every edge is crossed at most once. This paper studies the combinatorial relationship between the family of RAC graphs and the family of 1-planar graphs. It is proved that: (1) all RAC graphs having maximal edge density belong to the intersection of the two families; and (2) there is no inclusion relationship between the two families. As a by-product of the proof technique, it is also shown that every RAC graph with maximal edge density is the union of two maximal planar graphs.