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Abstract: The contribution of this paper is twofold. It presents a new approach to the matched drawability problem of pairs of planar graphs and it provides four algorithms based on this approach for drawing the pairs , , and . Further, it initiates the study of the matched drawability of triples of planar graphs: it presents an algorithm to compute a matched drawing of a triple of cycles and an algorithm to compute a matched drawing of a caterpillar and two unlabeled level planar graphs. The results extend previous work on the subject and relate to existing literature about simultaneous embeddability and unlabeled level planarity. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: We introduce and study a generalization of the well-known region of influence proximity drawings, called -proximity drawings. Intuitively, given a definition of proximity and two real numbers and , an -proximity drawing of a graph is a planar straight-line drawing Γ such that: (i) for every pair of adjacent vertices u, v, their proximity region “shrunk” by the multiplicative factor does not contain any vertices of Γ; (ii) for every pair of non-adjacent vertices u, v, their proximity region “expanded” by the factor contains some vertices of Γ other than u and v. In particular, the locations of the vertices in such a drawing do not always completely determine which edges must be present/absent, giving us some freedom of choice. We show that this generalization significantly enlarges the family of representable planar graphs for relevant definitions of proximity drawings, including Gabriel drawings, Delaunay drawings, and β-drawings, even for arbitrarily small values of and . We also study the extremal case of -proximity drawings, which generalize the well-known weak proximity drawing paradigm. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]