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The notion of 1-planarity is among the most natural and most studied generalizations of graph planarity. A graph is 1-planar if it has an embedding where each edge is crossed by at most another edge. The study of 1-planar graphs dates back to more than fifty years ago and, recently, it has driven increasing attention in the areas of graph theory, graph algorithms, graph drawing, and computational geometry. This annotated bibliography aims to provide a guiding reference to researchers who want to have an overview of the large body of literature about 1-planar graphs. It reviews the current literature covering various research streams about 1-planarity, such as characterization and recognition, combinatorial properties, and geometric representations. As an additional contribution, we offer a list of open problems on 1-planar graphs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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 -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 -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. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

A drawing of a graph is 1-planar if each edge is crossed at most once. A graph is 1-planar if it has a 1-planar drawing. A k-bend RAC (Right Angle Crossing) drawing of a graph is a polyline drawing where each edge has at most k bends and edges cross only at right angles. A graph is k-bend RAC if it has a k -bend RAC drawing. A 0-bend RAC graph (drawing) is also called a straight-line RAC graph (drawing) . The relationships between 1-planar and k -bend RAC graphs have been partially studied in the literature. It is known that there are both 1-planar graphs that are not straight-line RAC and straight-line RAC graphs that are not 1-planar. The existence of 1-planar straight-line RAC drawings has been proven only for restricted families of 1-planar graphs. Two of the main questions still open are: ( i ) What is the complexity of deciding whether a graph has a drawing that is both 1-planar and straight-line RAC? ( i i ) Does every 1-planar graph have a drawing that is both 1-planar and 1-bend RAC? In this paper we answer these two questions. Namely, we prove an NP-hardness result for the first question, and we positively answer the second question by describing a drawing algorithm for 1-planar graphs. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Abstract: In this paper we study how to compute compact straight-line drawings of planar graphs with a limited number of crossings per edge. We prove that every outerplanar graph can be drawn in area using a sub-linear number of crossings per edge, and that for any given number , every outerplanar graph admits an area drawing with crossing per edge. The drawing algorithms run in linear time and can be also generalized to another meaningful sub-family of series–parallel graphs with bounded vertex-degree. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]

Abstract: A 1-planar graph is a graph that can be embedded in the plane with at most one crossing per edge. It is known that testing 1-planarity of a graph is NP-complete. In this paper, we consider maximal 1-planar graphs. A graph G is maximal 1-planar if addition of any edge destroys 1-planarity of G. We first study combinatorial properties of maximal 1-planar embeddings. In particular, we show that in a maximal 1-planar embedding, the graph induced by the non-crossing edges is spanning and biconnected. Using the properties, we show that the problem of testing maximal 1-planarity of a graph G can be solved in linear time, if a rotation system Φ (i.e., the circular ordering of edges for each vertex) is given. We also prove that there is at most one maximal 1-planar embedding ξ of G that is consistent with the given rotation system Φ. Our algorithm also produces such an embedding in linear time, if it exists. [Copyright &y& Elsevier]