On Linear Layouts of Graphs

In a total order of the vertices of a graph, two edges with no endpoint in common can be crossing, nested, or disjoint. A k-stack (respectively, k-queue, k-arch) layout of a graph consists of a total order of the vertices, and a partition of the edges into k sets of pairwise non-crossing (respectively, non-nested, non-disjoint) edges. Motivated by numerous applications, stack layouts (also called book embeddings) and queue layouts are widely studied in the literature, while this is the first paper to investigate arch layouts.