We study c-crossing-critical graphs, which are the minimal graphs that require at least c edge-crossings when drawn in the plane. For every fixed pair of integers with c >= 13 and d >= 1, we give first explicit constructions of c-crossing-critical graphs containing a vertex of degree greater than d. We also show that such unbounded degree constructions do not exist for c <=12, precisely, that there exists a constant D such that every c-crossing-critical graph with c <=12 has maximum degree at most D. Hence, the bounded maximum degree conjecture of c-crossing-critical graphs, which was generally disproved in 2010 by Dvořák and Mohar (without an explicit construction), holds true, surprisingly, exactly for the values c <=12.
@InProceedings{bokal_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.14, author = {Bokal, Drago and Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k, Zden\v{e}k and Hlin\v{e}n\'{y}, Petr and Lea\~{n}os, Jes\'{u}s and Mohar, Bojan and Wiedera, Tilo}, title = {{Bounded Degree Conjecture Holds Precisely for c-Crossing-Critical Graphs with c \langle= 12}}, booktitle = {35th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2019)}, pages = {14:1--14:15}, series = {Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)}, ISBN = {978-3-95977-104-7}, ISSN = {1868-8969}, year = {2019}, volume = {129}, editor = {Barequet, Gill and Wang, Yusu}, publisher = {Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik}, address = {Dagstuhl, Germany}, URL = {https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.14}, URN = {urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-104183}, doi = {10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2019.14}, annote = {Keywords: graph drawing, crossing number, crossing-critical, zip product} }
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