Sum of edge lengths of a multigraph drawn on a convex polygon

  • Authors:
  • Hiro Ito

  • Affiliations:
  • School of Informatics, Kyoto University, Kyoto 606-8501, Japan

  • Venue:
  • Computational Geometry: Theory and Applications - Special issue on Discrete and computational geometry
  • Year:
  • 2003

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Abstract

Let x0, x1, ..., xn-1 be vertices of a convex n-gon P in the plane, where, x0x1X2,.... ,xn-2xn-1 and xn-1x0 are edges of P. Let G = (N, E) be a multigraph, such that N = {0, 1,.....,n - 1}. Consider a graph-drawing of G such that each vertex i ∈ N corresponds xi and each edge (i, j) ∈ E is drawn by a straight line segment. Denote the sum of the lengths of the edges of G in such a drawing by Sp (G). If Sp (G) ≤ Sp (G') for any convex n-gon P, then we write as G ≥l G'. This paper shows two necessary and sufficient conditions of G ≥l G'. Moreover, these conditions can be calculated in polynomial time for any given G and G'.