Title
Reconstruction of the geometric structure of a set of points in the plane from its geometric tree graph
Abstract
Let be a finite set of points in general position in the plane. The structure of the complete graph () as a geometric graph includes, for any pair [, ], [, ] of vertex-disjoint edges, the information whether they cross or not. The simple (i.e., non-crossing) spanning trees (SSTs) of () are the vertices of the so-called Geometric Tree Graph of , (). Two such vertices are adjacent in () if they differ in exactly two edges, i.e., if one can be obtained from the other by deleting an edge and adding another edge. In this paper we show how to reconstruct from () (regarded as an abstract graph) the structure of () as a geometric graph. We first identify within () the vertices that correspond to spanning stars. Then we regard each star () with center as the representative in () of the vertex of (). (This correspondence is determined only up to an automorphism of () as a geometric graph.) Finally we determine for any four distinct stars (), (), (),  and (), by looking at their relative positions in (), whether the corresponding segments cross.
Year
DOI
Venue
2016
10.1007/s00454-015-9750-6
Discrete & Computational Geometry
Keywords
Field
DocType
Tree graphs,Geometric tree graphs,Reconstruction
Geometric graph theory,Topology,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Bound graph,Graph power,Cycle graph,Distance-regular graph,Symmetric graph,Mathematics,Complement graph,Path graph
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
55
3
0179-5376
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
2
0.39
3
Authors
2
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Chaya Keller134.52
Micha A. Perles23810.65