Title
Schnyder woods for higher genus triangulated surfaces (abstract)
Abstract
We study a well known characterization of planar graphs, also called Schnyder wood or Schnyder labelling, which yields a decomposition into vertex spanning trees. The goal is to extend previous algorithms and characterizations designed for planar graphs (corresponding to combinatorial surfaces with the topology of the sphere, i.e., of genus 0) to the more general case of graphs embedded on surfaces of arbitrary genus. We define a new traversal order of the vertices of a triangulated surface of genus g together with an orientation and colouration of the edges that extends the one proposed by Schnyder for the planar case. As a by-product we show how to characterize our edge coloration in terms of genus g maps.
Year
DOI
Venue
2008
10.1016/j.endm.2008.06.022
Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Schnyder trees,triangulations,higher genus surfaces
Discrete mathematics,Graph,Combinatorics,Tree traversal,Vertex (geometry),Triangulation,Planar,Spanning tree,Genus (mathematics),Mathematics,Planar graph
Journal
Volume
ISSN
Citations 
31
1571-0653
0
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.34
7
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Luca Castelli Aleardi1877.96
Éric Fusy219821.95
Thomas Lewiner370043.70