Title
On the maximum number of edges in quasi-planar graphs
Abstract
A topological graph is quasi-planar, if it does not contain three pairwise crossing edges. Agarwal et al. [P.K. Agarwal, B. Aronov, J. Pach, R. Pollack, M. Sharir, Quasi-planar graphs have a linear number of edges, Combinatorica 17 (1) (1997) 1–9] proved that these graphs have a linear number of edges. We give a simple proof for this fact that yields the better upper bound of 8n edges for n vertices. Our best construction with 7n−O(1) edges comes very close to this bound. Moreover, we show matching upper and lower bounds for several relaxations and restrictions of this problem. In particular, we show that the maximum number of edges of a simple quasi-planar topological graph (i.e., every pair of edges have at most one point in common) is 6.5n−O(1), thereby exhibiting that non-simple quasi-planar graphs may have many more edges than simple ones.
Year
DOI
Venue
2007
10.1016/j.jcta.2006.08.002
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series A
Keywords
DocType
Volume
Turán-type problems,Geometric graphs,Topological graphs,Quasi-planar graphs,Discharging method
Journal
114
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
3
0097-3165
29
PageRank 
References 
Authors
1.48
7
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Eyal Ackerman118819.80
Gábor Tardos21261140.58