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Midrange crossing constants for graphs classes

Authors :
Czabarka, Éva
Reiswig, Josiah
Székely, László
Wang, Zhiyu
Publication Year :
2018

Abstract

For positive integers $n$ and $e$, let $\kappa(n,e)$ be the minimum crossing number (the standard planar crossing number) taken over all graphs with $n$ vertices and at least $e$ edges. Pach, Spencer and T\'oth [Discrete and Computational Geometry 24 623--644, (2000)] showed that $\kappa(n,e) n^2/e^3$ tends to a positive constant (called midrange crossing constant) as $n\to \infty$ and $n \ll e \ll n^2$, proving a conjecture of Erd\H{o}s and Guy. In this note, we extend their proof to show that the midrange crossing constant exists for graph classes that satisfy a certain set of graph properties. As a corollary, we show that the the midrange crossing constant exists for the family of bipartite graphs. All these results have their analogues for rectilinear crossing numbers.

Subjects

Subjects :
Mathematics - Combinatorics

Details

Database :
arXiv
Publication Type :
Report
Accession number :
edsarx.1811.08071
Document Type :
Working Paper