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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.27

Embedding Graphs into Two-Dimensional Simplicial Complexes

Authors: Éric Colin de Verdière, Thomas Magnard, and Bojan Mohar

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 99, 34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2018)

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We consider the problem of deciding whether an input graph G admits a topological embedding into a two-dimensional simplicial complex C. This problem includes, among others, the embeddability problem of a graph on a surface and the topological crossing number of a graph, but is more general. The problem is NP-complete when C is part of the input, and we give a polynomial-time algorithm if the complex C is fixed. Our strategy is to reduce the problem to an embedding extension problem on a surface, which has the following form: Given a subgraph H' of a graph G', and an embedding of H' on a surface S, can that embedding be extended to an embedding of G' on S? Such problems can be solved, in turn, using a key component in Mohar's algorithm to decide the embeddability of a graph on a fixed surface (STOC 1996, SIAM J. Discr. Math. 1999).

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Éric Colin de Verdière, Thomas Magnard, and Bojan Mohar. Embedding Graphs into Two-Dimensional Simplicial Complexes. In 34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2018). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 99, pp. 27:1-27:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2018)

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@InProceedings{verdiere_et_al:LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.27,
  author =	{Verdi\`{e}re, \'{E}ric Colin de and Magnard, Thomas and Mohar, Bojan},
  title =	{{Embedding Graphs into Two-Dimensional Simplicial Complexes}},
  booktitle =	{34th International Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG 2018)},
  pages =	{27:1--27:14},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-066-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2018},
  volume =	{99},
  editor =	{Speckmann, Bettina and T\'{o}th, Csaba D.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops-dev.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.27},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-87401},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2018.27},
  annote =	{Keywords: computational topology, embedding, simplicial complex, graph, surface}
}

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