Crossing number is hard for cubic graphs

  • Authors:
  • Petr Hliněný

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, Technical University of Ostrava, Ostrava, Czech Republic and Faculty of Informatics, Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

It was proved by [M.R. Garey, D.S. Johnson, Crossing number is NP-complete, SIAM J. Algebraic Discrete Methods 4 (1983) 312-316] that computing the crossing number of a graph is an NP-hard problem. Their reduction, however, used parallel edges and vertices of very high degrees. We prove here that it is NP-hard to determine the crossing number of a simple 3-connected cubic graph. In particular, this implies that the minor-monotone version of the crossing number problem is also NP-hard, which has been open till now.