Bounded degree conjecture holds precisely for c-crossing-critical graphs with c<=12

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BOKAL Drago DVOŘÁK Zdeněk HLINĚNÝ Petr LEANOS Jesus MOHAR Bojan WIEDERA Tilo

Year of publication 2022
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source COMBINATORICA
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Faculty of Informatics

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Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00493-021-4285-3
Keywords Crossing number; Crossing-critical; Exhaustive generation; Path-width
Description We study c-crossing-critical graphs, which are the minimal graphs that require at least c edge-crossings when drawn in the plane. For every fixed pair of integers with c >= 13 and d >= 1, we give first explicit constructions of c-crossing-critical graphs containing a vertex of degree greater than d. We also show that such unbounded degree constructions do not exist for c <=12, precisely, that there exists a constant D such that every c-crossing-critical graph with c <=12 has maximum degree at most D. Hence, the bounded maximum degree conjecture of c-crossing-critical graphs, which was generally disproved in 2010 by Dvorák and Mohar (without an explicit construction), holds true, surprisingly, exactly for the values c <=12.
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