On Edge-Disjoint Maximal Outerplanar Graphs

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Main Authors: Okada, Yuto, Otachi, Yota, Volk, Lena
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author Okada, Yuto
Otachi, Yota
Volk, Lena
author_facet Okada, Yuto
Otachi, Yota
Volk, Lena
contents We provide two constructions for $t$ edge-disjoint maximal outerplanar graphs on every number of $n \geq 4t$ vertices. The bound on the minimum number of vertices is tight. These constructions yield the existence of optimal outerthickness-$t$ graphs for every $t \in \mathbb{N}$. While one of the constructions works for all values of $t$ and extends graphs from Guy and Nowakowski (1990), the other one holds only for powers of $2$, but yields graphs with maximum degree logarithmic in the number of vertices. Thus, the latter may be helpful in tackling the open question of determining the outerthickness of all complete graphs.
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spellingShingle On Edge-Disjoint Maximal Outerplanar Graphs
Okada, Yuto
Otachi, Yota
Volk, Lena
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C10, 05C70, 68R10
We provide two constructions for $t$ edge-disjoint maximal outerplanar graphs on every number of $n \geq 4t$ vertices. The bound on the minimum number of vertices is tight. These constructions yield the existence of optimal outerthickness-$t$ graphs for every $t \in \mathbb{N}$. While one of the constructions works for all values of $t$ and extends graphs from Guy and Nowakowski (1990), the other one holds only for powers of $2$, but yields graphs with maximum degree logarithmic in the number of vertices. Thus, the latter may be helpful in tackling the open question of determining the outerthickness of all complete graphs.
title On Edge-Disjoint Maximal Outerplanar Graphs
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C10, 05C70, 68R10
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2601.05885