We prove that for every integer t greater than or equal to 1, the class of intersection graphs of curves in the plane each of which crosses a fixed curve in at least one and at most t points is chi-bounded. This is essentially the strongest chi-boundedness result one can get for this kind of graph classes. As a corollary, we prove that for any fixed integers k > 1 and t > 0, every k-quasi-planar topological graph on n vertices with any two edges crossing at most t times has O(n log n) edges.
@InProceedings{rok_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.56, author = {Rok, Alexandre and Walczak, Bartosz}, title = {{Coloring Curves That Cross a Fixed Curve}}, booktitle = {33rd International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2017)}, pages = {56:1--56:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-038-5}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2017}, volume = {77}, editor = {Aronov, Boris and Katz, Matthew J.}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.56}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-71788}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2017.56}, annote = {Keywords: String graphs, chi-boundedness, k-quasi-planar graphs} }
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