Vida Dujmović ; David R. Wood - Stacks, Queues and Tracks: Layouts of Graph Subdivisions

dmtcs:346 - Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, January 1, 2005, Vol. 7 - https://doi.org/10.46298/dmtcs.346
Stacks, Queues and Tracks: Layouts of Graph SubdivisionsArticle

Authors: Vida Dujmović 1; David R. Wood ORCID2

  • 1 School of Computer Science [Ottawa]
  • 2 Departament de Matemàtica Aplicada II

A \emphk-stack layout (respectively, \emphk-queuelayout) of a graph consists of a total order of the vertices, and a partition of the edges into k sets of non-crossing (non-nested) edges with respect to the vertex ordering. A \emphk-track layout of a graph consists of a vertex k-colouring, and a total order of each vertex colour class, such that between each pair of colour classes no two edges cross. The \emphstack-number (respectively, \emphqueue-number, \emphtrack-number) of a graph G, denoted by sn(G) (qn(G), tn(G)), is the minimum k such that G has a k-stack (k-queue, k-track) layout.\par This paper studies stack, queue, and track layouts of graph subdivisions. It is known that every graph has a 3-stack subdivision. The best known upper bound on the number of division vertices per edge in a 3-stack subdivision of an n-vertex graph G is improved from O(log n) to O(log min\sn(G),qn(G)\). This result reduces the question of whether queue-number is bounded by stack-number to whether 3-stack graphs have bounded queue number.\par It is proved that every graph has a 2-queue subdivision, a 4-track subdivision, and a mixed 1-stack 1-queue subdivision. All these values are optimal for every non-planar graph. In addition, we characterise those graphs with k-stack, k-queue, and k-track subdivisions, for all values of k. The number of division vertices per edge in the case of 2-queue and 4-track subdivisions, namely O(log qn(G)), is optimal to within a constant factor, for every graph G. \par Applications to 3D polyline grid drawings are presented. For example, it is proved that every graph G has a 3D polyline grid drawing with the vertices on a rectangular prism, and with O(log qn(G)) bends per edge. Finally, we establish a tight relationship between queue layouts and so-called 2-track thickness of bipartite graphs. \par


Volume: Vol. 7
Published on: January 1, 2005
Imported on: March 26, 2015
Keywords: 2-track thickness,book-thickness,page-number,graph layout,graph drawing,track layout,stack layout,queue layout,book embedding,track-number,queue-number,stack-number,three-dimensional graph drawing,geometric thickness,subdivision,[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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