On Paths in a Complete Bipartite Geometric Graph

  • Authors:
  • Atsuhi Kaneko;M. Kano

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • JCDCG '00 Revised Papers from the Japanese Conference on Discrete and Computational Geometry
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Let A and B be two disjoint sets of points in the plane such that no three points of A 驴 B arc collinear, and let n be the number of points in A. A geometric complete bipartite graph K(A, B) is a complete bipartite graph with partite sets A and B which is drawn in the plane such that each edge of K(A, B) is a straight-line segment. We prove that (i) If |B| 驴 (n + 1)(2n - 4) + 1, then the geometric complete bipartite graph K(A, B) contains a path that passes through all the points in A and has no crossings; and (ii) There exists a configuration of A 驴 B with |B| = n2/16 + n/2 - 1 such that in K(A, B) every path containing the set A has at least one crossing.