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On Primal-Dual Circle Representations

Authors Stefan Felsner, Günter Rote

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  • Disk packing
  • planar graphs
  • contact representation

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Abstract

The Koebe-Andreev-Thurston Circle Packing Theorem states that every triangulated planar graph has a contact representation by circles. The theorem has been generalized in various ways. The most prominent generalization assures the existence of a primal-dual circle representation for every 3-connected planar graph. We present a simple and elegant elementary proof of this result.

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Stefan Felsner and Günter Rote. On Primal-Dual Circle Representations. In 2nd Symposium on Simplicity in Algorithms (SOSA 2019). Open Access Series in Informatics (OASIcs), Volume 69, pp. 8:1-8:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2019) https://doi.org/10.4230/OASIcs.SOSA.2019.8

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Stefan Felsner
Günter Rote

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