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Special issue on Selected papers from the Twenty-eighth International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2020
DOI: 10.7155/jgaa.00598
Drawing Shortest Paths in Geodetic Graphs
Sabine Cornelsen, Maximilian Pfister, Henry Förster, Martin Gronemann, Michael Hoffmann, Stephen Kobourov, and Thomas Schneck
Vol. 26, no. 3, pp. 353-361, 2022. Regular paper.
Abstract Motivated by the fact that in a space where shortest paths are unique, no two shortest paths meet twice, we study a question posed by Greg Bodwin: Given a geodetic graph $G$, i.e., an unweighted graph in which the shortest path between any pair of vertices is unique, is there a philogeodetic drawing of $G$, i.e., a drawing of $G$ in which the curves of any two shortest paths meet at most once? We answer this question in the negative by showing the existence of geodetic graphs that require some pair of shortest paths to cross at least four times. The bound on the number of crossings is tight for the class of graphs we construct. Furthermore, we exhibit geodetic graphs of diameter two that do not admit a philogeodetic drawing. On the positive side we show that geodetic graphs admit a philogeodetic drawing if both the diameter and the density are very low.
 This work is licensed under the terms of the CC-BY license.
Submitted: October 2020.
Reviewed: April 2022.
Revised: May 2022.
Accepted: May 2022.
Final: June 2022.
Published: June 2022.
Communicated by David Auber and Pavel Valtr
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