4-labelings and grid embeddings of plane quadrangulations

We show that each quadrangulation on $n$ vertices has a closed rectangle of influence drawing on the $(n-2) \times (n-2)$ grid. Further, we present a simple algorithm to obtain a straight-line drawing of a quadrangulation on the $\Big\lceil\frac{n}{2}\Big\rceil \times \Big\lceil\frac{3n}{4}\Big\rcei...

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Autores: Barrière Figueroa, Eulalia|||0000-0002-5692-6879, Huemer, Clemens|||0000-0001-7557-0823
Tipo de recurso: informe técnico
Fecha de publicación:2009
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/3013
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/3013
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Graph theory
embedding
labeling
quadrangulation
rectangle of influence
rectangulation
planar bipartite graph
Grafs, Teoria de
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05C Graph theory
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística
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Sumario:We show that each quadrangulation on $n$ vertices has a closed rectangle of influence drawing on the $(n-2) \times (n-2)$ grid. Further, we present a simple algorithm to obtain a straight-line drawing of a quadrangulation on the $\Big\lceil\frac{n}{2}\Big\rceil \times \Big\lceil\frac{3n}{4}\Big\rceil$ grid. This is not optimal but has the advantage over other existing algorithms that it is not needed to add edges to the quadrangulation to make it $4$-connected. The algorithm is based on angle labeling and simple face counting in regions analogous to Schnyder's grid embedding for triangulation. This extends previous results on book embeddings for quadrangulations from Felsner, Huemer, Kappes, and Orden (2008). Our approach also yields a representation of a quadrangulation as a pair of rectangulations with a curious property.