Stick Graphs with Length Constraints

Steven Chaplick; Philipp Kindermann; Andre Löffler; Florian Thiele; Alexander Wolff; Alexander Zaft; Johannes Zink

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-35802-0_1

Stick Graphs with Length Constraints

Steven Chaplick, Philipp Kindermann, Andre Löffler, Florian Thiele, Alexander Wolff, Alexander Zaft, Johannes Zink^*

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Abstract

Stick graphs are intersection graphs of horizontal and vertical line segments that all touch a line of slope -1 and lie above this line. De Luca et al. [GD'18] considered the recognition problem of stick graphs when no order is given (STICK), when the order of either one of the two sets is given (STICKA), and when the order of both sets is given (STICKAB). They showed how to solve STICKAB efficiently.

In this paper, we improve the running time of their algorithm, and we solve STICKA efficiently. Further, we consider variants of these problems where the lengths of the sticks are given as input. We show that these variants of STICK, STICKA, and STICKAB are all NP-complete. On the positive side, we give an efficient solution for STICKAB with fixed stick lengths if there are no isolated vertices.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Graph Drawing and Network Visualization. GD 2019
Editors	D. Archambault, C. Tóth
Pages	3-17
Number of pages	15
ISBN (Electronic)	978-3-030-35802-0
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-35802-0_1
Publication status	Published - 2019
Externally published	Yes

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Series	Lecture Notes in Computer Science
Volume	11904
ISSN	0302-9743

Keywords

INTERSECTION
INTERVAL-GRAPHS
SIZE

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Recognizing Stick Graphs with and without Length Constraints
Chaplick, S., Kindermann, P., Löffler, A., Thiele, F., Wolff, A., Zaft, A. & Zink, J., 2020, In: Journal of Graph Algorithms and Applications. 24, 4, p. 657-681
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Graph Drawing and Network Visualization. GD 2019. ed. / D. Archambault; C. Tóth. 2019. p. 3-17 (Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Vol. 11904).

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Stick Graphs with Length Constraints

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Recognizing Stick Graphs with and without Length Constraints

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