Vida Dujmović ; Attila Pór ; David R. Wood - Track Layouts of Graphs

dmtcs:315 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2004, Vol. 6 no. 2 - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.315
Track Layouts of GraphsArticle

Authors: Vida Dujmović 1; Attila Pór 2; David R. Wood ORCID1,3

  • 1 School of Computer Science [Ottawa]
  • 2 Department of Mathematics, Applied Mathematics and Statistics [Cleveland]
  • 3 Department of Applied Mathematics [Prague]

A \emph(k,t)-track layout of a graph G consists of a (proper) vertex t-colouring of G, a total order of each vertex colour class, and a (non-proper) edge k-colouring such that between each pair of colour classes no two monochromatic edges cross. This structure has recently arisen in the study of three-dimensional graph drawings. This paper presents the beginnings of a theory of track layouts. First we determine the maximum number of edges in a (k,t)-track layout, and show how to colour the edges given fixed linear orderings of the vertex colour classes. We then describe methods for the manipulation of track layouts. For example, we show how to decrease the number of edge colours in a track layout at the expense of increasing the number of tracks, and vice versa. We then study the relationship between track layouts and other models of graph layout, namely stack and queue layouts, and geometric thickness. One of our principle results is that the queue-number and track-number of a graph are tied, in the sense that one is bounded by a function of the other. As corollaries we prove that acyclic chromatic number is bounded by both queue-number and stack-number. Finally we consider track layouts of planar graphs. While it is an open problem whether planar graphs have bounded track-number, we prove bounds on the track-number of outerplanar graphs, and give the best known lower bound on the track-number of planar graphs.\


Volume: Vol. 6 no. 2
Published on: January 1, 2004
Imported on: March 26, 2015
Keywords: graph layout,graph drawing,track layout,stack layout,queue layout,book embedding,track-number,queue-number,stack-number,page-number,book-thickness,geometric thickness,three-dimensional graph drawing,[INFO.INFO-DM] Computer Science [cs]/Discrete Mathematics [cs.DM]
Funding:
    Source : OpenAIRE Graph
  • Funder: Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada

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