On the number of edges in saturated partial embeddings of maximal planar graphs

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Hauptverfasser: Barát, János, Blázsik, Zoltán L., Keszegh, Balázs, Zheng, Zeyu
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author Barát, János
Blázsik, Zoltán L.
Keszegh, Balázs
Zheng, Zeyu
author_facet Barát, János
Blázsik, Zoltán L.
Keszegh, Balázs
Zheng, Zeyu
contents We investigate the extremal properties of saturated partial plane embeddings of maximal planar graphs. For a planar graph $G$, the plane-saturation number $\mathrm{sat}_{\mathcal{P}}(G)$ denotes the minimum number of edges in a plane subgraph of $G$ such that the addition of any edge either violates planarity or results in a graph that is not a subgraph of $G$. We focus on maximal planar graphs and establish an upper bound on $\mathrm{sat}_{\mathcal{P}}(G)$ by showing there exists a universal constant $ε> 0$ such that $\mathrm{sat}_{\mathcal{P}}(G) < (3-ε)v(G)$ for any maximal planar graph $G$ with $v(G) \geq 16$. This answers a question posed by Clifton and Simon. Additionally, we derive lower bound results and demonstrate that for maximal planar graphs with sufficiently large number of vertices, the minimum ratio $\mathrm{sat}_{\mathcal{P}}(G)/e(G)$ lies within the interval $(1/16, 1/9 + o(1)]$.
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spellingShingle On the number of edges in saturated partial embeddings of maximal planar graphs
Barát, János
Blázsik, Zoltán L.
Keszegh, Balázs
Zheng, Zeyu
Combinatorics
We investigate the extremal properties of saturated partial plane embeddings of maximal planar graphs. For a planar graph $G$, the plane-saturation number $\mathrm{sat}_{\mathcal{P}}(G)$ denotes the minimum number of edges in a plane subgraph of $G$ such that the addition of any edge either violates planarity or results in a graph that is not a subgraph of $G$. We focus on maximal planar graphs and establish an upper bound on $\mathrm{sat}_{\mathcal{P}}(G)$ by showing there exists a universal constant $ε> 0$ such that $\mathrm{sat}_{\mathcal{P}}(G) < (3-ε)v(G)$ for any maximal planar graph $G$ with $v(G) \geq 16$. This answers a question posed by Clifton and Simon. Additionally, we derive lower bound results and demonstrate that for maximal planar graphs with sufficiently large number of vertices, the minimum ratio $\mathrm{sat}_{\mathcal{P}}(G)/e(G)$ lies within the interval $(1/16, 1/9 + o(1)]$.
title On the number of edges in saturated partial embeddings of maximal planar graphs
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2502.05438