On the Bend-Number of Planar and Outerplanar Graphs

Abstrakt

The bend-number b(G) of a graph G is the minimum k such that G may be represented as the edge intersection graph of a set of grid paths with at most k bends. We confirm a conjecture of Biedl and Stern showing that the maximum bend-number of outerplanar graphs is 2.

Moreover we improve the formerly known lower and upper bound for the maximum bend-number of planar graphs from 2 and 5 to 3 and 4, respectively.

Klíčová slova

• Bend-Number
• Planar graphs
• Outerplanar Graphs