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arXiv 1908.057062019-08-26cs.CGcs.DS

Homotopy height, grid-major height and graph-drawing height

Therese Biedl, Erin Wolf Chambers, David Eppstein, Arnaud De Mesmay, Tim Ophelders

备注：: 28 pages, 11 figures. Expanded version of a paper in the Proceedings of the 27th International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization (GD 2019); for the proceedings version, see version 1

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It is well-known that both the pathwidth and the outer-planarity of a graph can be used to obtain lower bounds on the height of a planar straight-line drawing of a graph. But both bounds fall short for some graphs. In this paper, we consider two other parameters, the (simple) homotopy height and the (simple) grid-major height. We discuss the relationship between them and to the other parameters, and argue that they give lower bounds on the straight-line drawing height that are never worse than the ones obtained from pathwidth and outer-planarity.

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