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标题：Arc Diagrams, Flip Distances, and Hamiltonian Triangulations
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作者：Jean Cardinal ; Michael Hoffmann ; Vincent Kusters 等
期刊名称：LIPIcs : Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics
电子版ISSN：1868-8969
出版年度：2015
卷号：30
页码：197-210
DOI：10.4230/LIPIcs.STACS.2015.197
出版社：Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum fuer Informatik
摘要：We show that every triangulation (maximal planar graph) on n\ge 6 vertices can be flipped into a Hamiltonian triangulation using a sequence of less than n/2 combinatorial edge flips. The previously best upper bound uses 4-connectivity as a means to establish Hamiltonicity. But in general about 3n/5 flips are necessary to reach a 4-connected triangulation. Our result improves the upper bound on the diameter of the flip graph of combinatorial triangulations on n vertices from 5.2n-33.6 to 5n-23. We also show that for every triangulation on n vertices there is a simultaneous flip of less than 2n/3 edges to a 4-connected triangulation. The bound on the number of edges is tight, up to an additive constant. As another application we show that every planar graph on n vertices admits an arc diagram with less than n/2 biarcs, that is, after subdividing less than n/2 (of potentially 3n-6) edges the resulting graph admits a 2-page book embedding.
关键词：graph embeddings; edge flips; flip graph; separating triangles