TY - UNPB
T1 - Planar Drawings with Few Slopes of Halin Graphs and Nested Pseudotrees
AU - Chaplick, Steven
AU - Lozzo, Giordano Da
AU - Giacomo, Emilio Di
AU - Liotta, Giuseppe
AU - Montecchiani, Fabrizio
N1 - Extended version of "Planar Drawings with Few Slopes of Halin Graphs and Nested Pseudotrees" to appear in the Proceedings of the 17th Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS 2021)
PY - 2021/5/17
Y1 - 2021/5/17
N2 - The $\textit{planar slope number}$ $psn(G)$ of a planar graph $G$ is the minimum number of edge slopes in a planar straight-line drawing of $G$. It is known that $psn(G) \in O(c^\Delta)$ for every planar graph $G$ of degree $\Delta$. This upper bound has been improved to $O(\Delta^5)$ if $G$ has treewidth three, and to $O(\Delta)$ if $G$ has treewidth two. In this paper we prove $psn(G) \in \Theta(\Delta)$ when $G$ is a Halin graph, and thus has treewidth three. Furthermore, we present the first polynomial upper bound on the planar slope number for a family of graphs having treewidth four. Namely we show that $O(\Delta^2)$ slopes suffice for nested pseudotrees.
AB - The $\textit{planar slope number}$ $psn(G)$ of a planar graph $G$ is the minimum number of edge slopes in a planar straight-line drawing of $G$. It is known that $psn(G) \in O(c^\Delta)$ for every planar graph $G$ of degree $\Delta$. This upper bound has been improved to $O(\Delta^5)$ if $G$ has treewidth three, and to $O(\Delta)$ if $G$ has treewidth two. In this paper we prove $psn(G) \in \Theta(\Delta)$ when $G$ is a Halin graph, and thus has treewidth three. Furthermore, we present the first polynomial upper bound on the planar slope number for a family of graphs having treewidth four. Namely we show that $O(\Delta^2)$ slopes suffice for nested pseudotrees.
KW - cs.CG
U2 - 10.48550/arXiv.2105.08124
DO - 10.48550/arXiv.2105.08124
M3 - Preprint
BT - Planar Drawings with Few Slopes of Halin Graphs and Nested Pseudotrees
ER -