Grid straight-line embeddings of trees with a minimum number of bends per path


Por: Luca V.T.F., Marin, N., Oliveira, F. S., Ramirez-Vigueras, A., Sole-Pi, O., Szwarcfiter, J. L., Urrutia, J.

Publicada: 1 mar 2022
Resumen:
A grid embedding of a tree T whose vertices have degree at most four is an embedding in which the vertices of T are represented by points with integer coordinates, and the edges are represented by interior-disjoint horizontal or vertical line segments joining pairs of adjacent vertices in T. In any such embedding, a path of T may bend several times. In this paper we obtain a linear-time algorithm that given a tree T finds a grid embedding of T that minimizes the maximum number of times any path of T bends. All of the results presented here generalize easily to lattice embeddings of trees in higher dimensions. (C) 2021 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.

Filiaciones:
Luca V.T.F.:
 Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Marin, N.:
 Posgrado en Ciencia e Ingeniería de la Computación, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

 (Corresponding Author), Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Posgrad Ciencia & Ingn Computac, Mexico City, DF, Mexico

 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Posgrad Ciencia & Ingn Computac, Mexico City, DF, Mexico

Oliveira, F. S.:
 Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 Univ Estado Rio De Janeiro, Inst Matemat & Estat, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Ramirez-Vigueras, A.:
 Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Matemat, Mexico City, DF, Mexico

Sole-Pi, O.:
 Facultad de Ciencias, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Fac Ciencias, Mexico City, DF, Mexico

Szwarcfiter, J. L.:
 COPPE, NCE, IM, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, Instituto de Matemática e Estatística, Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

 Univ Estado Rio De Janeiro, Inst Matemat & Estat, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

 Univ Fed Rio Janeiro, COPPE, NCE, IM, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Urrutia, J.:
 Instituto de Matemáticas, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico

 Univ Nacl Autonoma Mexico, Inst Matemat, Mexico City, DF, Mexico
ISSN: 00200190





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