In a fan-planar drawing of a graph an edge can cross only edges with a common end-vertex. In this paper, we study fan-planar drawings that use h (horizontal) layers and are proper, i.e., edges connect adjacent layers. We show that if the embedding of the graph is fixed, then testing the existence of such drawings is fixed-parameter tractable in h, via a reduction to a similar result for planar graphs by Dujmović et al. If the embedding is not fixed, then we give partial results for h = 2: It was already known how to test the existence of fan-planar proper 2-layer drawings for 2-connected graphs, and we show here how to test this for trees. Along the way, we exhibit other interesting results for graphs with a fan-planar proper h-layer drawing; in particular we bound their pathwidth and show that they have a bar-1-visibility representation.
@InProceedings{biedl_et_al:LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.14, author = {Biedl, Therese and Chaplick, Steven and Kaufmann, Michael and Montecchiani, Fabrizio and N\"{o}llenburg, Martin and Raftopoulou, Chrysanthi}, title = {{Layered Fan-Planar Graph Drawings}}, booktitle = {45th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2020)}, pages = {14:1--14:13}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-159-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2020}, volume = {170}, editor = {Esparza, Javier and Kr\'{a}l', Daniel}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.14}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-126835}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2020.14}, annote = {Keywords: Graph Drawing, Parameterized Complexity, Beyond Planar Graphs} }
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