Curve - constrained drawings of planar graphs ✩ Emilio
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چکیده
Let C be the family of 2D curves described by concave functions, let G be a planar graph, and let L be a linear ordering of the vertices of G. L is a curve embedding of G if for any given curve Λ ∈ C there exists a planar drawing of G such that: (i) the vertices are constrained to be on Λ with the same ordering as in L, and (ii) the edges are polylines with at most one bend. Informally speaking, a curve embedding can be regarded as a two-page book embedding in which the spine is bent. Although deciding whether a graph has a two-page book embedding is an NP-hard problem, in this paper it is proven that every planar graph has a curve embedding which can be computed in linear time. Applications of the concept of curve embedding to upward drawability and point-set embeddability problems are also presented. 2004 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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