Title
Note on the Pair-crossing Number and the Odd-crossing Number
Abstract
The crossing number ${\mbox{\sc cr}}(G)$ of a graph G is the minimum possible number of edge-crossings in a drawing of G, the pair-crossing number ${\mbox{\sc pair-cr}}(G)$ is the minimum possible number of crossing pairs of edges in a drawing of G, and the odd-crossing number ${\mbox{\sc odd-cr}}(G)$ is the minimum number of pairs of edges that cross an odd number of times. Clearly, ${\mbox{\sc odd-cr}}(G)\le {\mbox{\sc pair-cr}}(G)\le {\mbox{\sc cr}}(G)$. We construct graphs with $0.855\cdot {\mbox{\sc pair-cr}}(G)\ge {\mbox{\sc odd-cr}}(G)$. This improves the bound of Pelsmajer, Schaefer and Štefankovič. Our construction also answers an old question of Tutte. Slightly improving the bound of Valtr, we also show that if the pair-crossing number of G is k, then its crossing number is at most O(k 2/log 2 k).
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1007/s00454-007-9024-z
Discrete and Computational Geometry
Keywords
Field
DocType
Drawings of a graph,Crossing number
Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Crossing number (graph theory),Computer science
Conference
Volume
Issue
ISSN
39
4
0179-5376
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
3
0.48
6
Authors
1
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Géza Tóth158155.60