Outside-Obstacle Representations with All Vertices on the Outer Face

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Auteurs principaux: Firman, Oksana, Kindermann, Philipp, Klawitter, Jonathan, Klemz, Boris, Klesen, Felix, Wolff, Alexander
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Publié: 2022
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author Firman, Oksana
Kindermann, Philipp
Klawitter, Jonathan
Klemz, Boris
Klesen, Felix
Wolff, Alexander
author_facet Firman, Oksana
Kindermann, Philipp
Klawitter, Jonathan
Klemz, Boris
Klesen, Felix
Wolff, Alexander
contents An obstacle representation of a graph $G$ consists of a set of polygonal obstacles and a drawing of $G$ as a visibility graph with respect to the obstacles: vertices are mapped to points and edges to straight-line segments such that each edge avoids all obstacles whereas each non-edge intersects at least one obstacle. Obstacle representations have been investigated quite intensely over the last few years. Here we focus on outside-obstacle representations (OORs) that use only one obstacle in the outer face of the drawing. It is known that every outerplanar graph admits such a representation. We strengthen this result by showing that every (partial) 2-tree has an OOR. We also consider restricted versions of OORs where the vertices of the graph form a convex polygon or even a regular polygon. We characterize when the complement of a tree and when a complete graph minus a simple cycle admits a convex OOR. We construct regular OORs for all (partial) outerpaths, cactus graphs, and grids.
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spellingShingle Outside-Obstacle Representations with All Vertices on the Outer Face
Firman, Oksana
Kindermann, Philipp
Klawitter, Jonathan
Klemz, Boris
Klesen, Felix
Wolff, Alexander
Computational Geometry
68R10, 05C62
An obstacle representation of a graph $G$ consists of a set of polygonal obstacles and a drawing of $G$ as a visibility graph with respect to the obstacles: vertices are mapped to points and edges to straight-line segments such that each edge avoids all obstacles whereas each non-edge intersects at least one obstacle. Obstacle representations have been investigated quite intensely over the last few years. Here we focus on outside-obstacle representations (OORs) that use only one obstacle in the outer face of the drawing. It is known that every outerplanar graph admits such a representation. We strengthen this result by showing that every (partial) 2-tree has an OOR. We also consider restricted versions of OORs where the vertices of the graph form a convex polygon or even a regular polygon. We characterize when the complement of a tree and when a complete graph minus a simple cycle admits a convex OOR. We construct regular OORs for all (partial) outerpaths, cactus graphs, and grids.
title Outside-Obstacle Representations with All Vertices on the Outer Face
topic Computational Geometry
68R10, 05C62
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2202.13015