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Let G be a planar graph and H be a subgraph of G. Given any convex drawing of H, we investigate the problem of how to extend the drawing of H to a convex drawing of G. We obtain a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence and a linear algorithm for the construction of such an extension. Our results and their corollaries generalize previous theoretical and algorithmic results of Tutte, Thomassen, Chiba, Yamanouchi, and Nishizeki.
This work is partially supported by National Scientific Foundation grant CCR-9409191.
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Djidjev, H.N. (1995). On drawing a graph convexly in the plane (extended abstract). In: Tamassia, R., Tollis, I.G. (eds) Graph Drawing. GD 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 894. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58950-3_358
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