Home | Issues | About JGAA | Instructions for Authors |
Special issue on Selected papers from the Twenty-nineth International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, GD 2021
DOI: 10.7155/jgaa.00614
Arrangements of orthogonal circles with many intersections
Sarah Carmesin and
André Schulz
Vol. 27, no. 2, pp. 49-70, 2023. Regular paper.
Abstract An arrangement of circles in which circles intersect only
in angles of $\pi/2$ is called an
arrangement of orthogonal circles. We show that in
the case that no two circles are nested, the intersection
graph of such an arrangement is planar. The same result holds
for arrangement of circles that intersect in an angle of at most $\pi/2$.
For the case where circles can be nested we prove that the maximal number of
edges in an intersection graph of an arrangement of orthogonal circles lies in between
$4n - O\left(\sqrt{n}\right)$ and $\left(4+\frac{5}{11}\right)n$, for
$n$ being the number of circles. Based on the lower bound we
can also improve the lower bound for the number of triangles in
arrangements of orthogonal circles to $(3 + \frac{5}{9})n-O\left(\sqrt{n}\right)$.
This work is licensed under the terms of the CC-BY license.
|
Submitted: November 2021.
Reviewed: March 2022.
Revised: March 2022.
Reviewed: October 2022.
Revised: November 2022.
Accepted: November 2022.
Final: November 2022.
Published: February 2023.
|
Journal Supporters
|