Research about crossings is typically about minimization. In this paper, we consider maximizing the number of crossings over all possible ways to draw a given graph in the plane. Alpert et al. [1] conjectured that any graph has a convex straight-line drawing, e.g., a drawing with vertices in convex position, that maximizes the number of edge crossings. We disprove this conjecture by constructin...

It is shown that if a graph of n vertices can be drawn on the torus without edge crossings and the maximum degree of its vertices is at most d, then its planar crossing number cannot exceed cdn, where c is a constant. This bound, conjectured by Brass, cannot be improved, apart from the value of the constant. We strengthen and generalize this result to the case when the graph has a crossing-free...

The degenerate crossing number cr∗(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of crossing points of edges in any drawing of G as a simple topological graph in the plane. This notion was introduced by Pach and Tóth who showed that for a graph G with n vertices and e ≥ 4n edges cr∗(G) = Ω(e/n). In this paper we completely resolve the main open question about degenerate crossing numbers and show that c...

A k-box B = (R1, R2, . . . , Rk), where each Ri is a closed interval on the real line, is defined to be the Cartesian product R1 × R2 × · · · × Rk. If each Ri is a unit length interval, we call B a k-cube. Boxicity of a graph G, denoted as box(G), is the minimum integer k such that G is an intersection graph of k-boxes. Similarly, the cubicity of G, denoted as cub(G), is the minimum integer k s...

4 A drawing of a graph is pseudolinear if there is a pseudoline arrangement such that 5 each pseudoline contains exactly one edge of the drawing. The pseudolinear crossing 6 number c̃r(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of pairwise crossings of edges in 7 a pseudolinear drawing of G. We establish several facts on the pseudolinear crossing 8 number, including its computational complexity and i...

By a drawing of a graph G, we mean a drawing in the plane such that vertices are represented by distinct points and edges by arcs. The crossing number cr(G) of a graph G is the minimum possible number of crossings in a drawing of G. The pair-crossing number pair-cr(G) of G is the minimum possible number of (unordered) crossing pairs in a drawing of G. Clearly, pair-cr(G) ≤ cr(G) holds for any g...

A nonplanar graph G is near-planar if it contains an edge e such that G− e is planar. The problem of determining the crossing number of a near-planar graph is exhibited from different combinatorial viewpoints. On the one hand, we develop min-max formulas involving efficiently computable lower and upper bounds. These min-max results are the first of their kind in the study of crossing numbers an...

The bondage number b(G) of a nonempty graph G is the cardinality of a smallest edge set whose removal from G results in a graph with domination number greater than the domination number (G) ofG. Kang andYuan proved b(G) 8 for every connected planar graph G. Fischermann, Rautenbach and Volkmann obtained some further results for connected planar graphs. In this paper, we generalize their results ...