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Universal 3-Dimensional visibility representations for graphs

  • Helmut Alt
  • Michael Godau
  • Sue Whitesides
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Abstract

This paper studies 3-dimensional visibility representations of graphs in which objects in 3-d correspond to vertices and vertical visibilities between these objects correspond to edges. We ask which classes of simple objects are universal, i.e. powerful enough to represent all graphs. In particular, we show that there is no constant k for which the class of all polygons having k or fewer sides is universal. However, we show by construction that every graph on n vertices can be represented by polygons each having at most 2n sides. The construction can be carried out by an O(n2) algorithm. We also study the universality of classes of simple objects (translates of a single, not necessarily polygonal object) relative to cliques Kn and similarly relative to complete bipartite graphs Kn,m.

Keywords

Visibility Representation Search Tree Simple Object Full Size Complete Bipartite Graph 
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Authors and Affiliations

  • Helmut Alt
    • 2
  • Michael Godau
    • 2
  • Sue Whitesides
    • 1
  1. 1.McGill UniversityMontrealCanada
  2. 2.Institut für InformatikFU BerlinBerlinGermany

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