Introduction
A Lombardi drawing of a graph is a drawingwhere edges are represented by circular arcs that meet at each vertex v with perfect angular resolution 360°/deg(v) [3]. It is known that Lombardi drawings do not always exist, and in particular, that planar Lombardi drawings of planar graphs do not always exist [1], even when the embedding is not fixed. Existence of planar Lombardi drawings is known for restricted classes of graphs, such as subcubic planar graphs [4], trees [2], Halin graphs and some very symmetric planar graphs [3]. On the other hand, all 2-degenerate graphs, including all outerplanar graphs, have Lombardi drawings, but not necessarily planar ones [3]. One question that was left open is whether outerplanar graphs always have planar Lombardi drawings or not.
In this note, we report that the answer is “yes” for a more restricted subclass: the outerpaths, i.e., outerplanar graphs whose weak dual is a path. We sketch an algorithm that produces an outerplanar Lombardi drawing of any outerpath, in linear time.
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Löffler, M., Nöllenburg, M. (2013). Planar Lombardi Drawings of Outerpaths. In: Didimo, W., Patrignani, M. (eds) Graph Drawing. GD 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7704. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-36763-2_53
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