How many faces do you get from walking the faces of this rotation system of K 4 ? Is this an embedding of K 4 in the plane? 0 : : : : 0 2 1

Rotation Systems F0: (a, b)(b, c)(c, a)(a, b) F1: (a, d)(d, e)(e, b)(b, a)(a, d) G connected on an orientable surface: g= (2 – n + m – f)/2 0 plane 1torus 2 Greg McShane

How can we find a rotation system that represents a planar embedding of a graph? Input graph: 0: : : 1 3 3: : Planar embedding 0: : : 1 3 3: : 0 1 3

f= number of faces n= number of vertices m= number of edges Euler’s formula: For any connected planar graph G, f= m-n+2. Proof by induction: How many edges must a connected graph on n vertices have?

Euler’s formula: For any connected planar graph G, f= m-n+2. [Basis] The connected graphs on n vertices with a minimum number of edges are trees. If T is a tree, then it has n-1 edges and one face when embedded in the plane. Checking the formula: 1 = (n-1) – n + 2 ⟹ 1 = 1 so the base case holds.

Adding one edge adds one more face. Therefore, f’ = f+ 1. Recall m’= m+1. Checking the formula: f’ = m’ – n + 2 means that f+1 = m+1 – n + 2 subtracting one from both sides gives f= m – n + 2 which we know is true by induction.

Pre-processing for an embedding algorithm. 1.Break graph into its connected components. 2.For each connected component, break it into its 2-connected components (maximal subgraphs having no cut vertex).

A disconnected graph: isolated vertex

First split into its 4 connected components:

The yellow component has a cut vertex:

The 2-connected components of the yellow component:

The red component: the yellow vertices aqre cut vertices.

The 2-connected components of the red component:

How do we decompose the graph like this using a computer algorithm? The easiest way: BFS (Breadth First Search)

18 Queue (used for BFS) owerShellABCsQisforQueues_919A/queue_2.jpg

19 Queue data structure: Items are: Added to the rear of the queue. Removed from the front of the queue.

20 If you have an upper bound on the lifetime size of the queue then you can use an array: qfront=5, qrear=9 (qrear is next empty spot in array)

21 To test if there is something in the queue: if (qfront < qrear) To add x to the queue: Q[qrear]= x; qrear++; To delete front element of the queue: x= Q[qfront]; qfront++; Q: qfront=5, qrear=9

22 If the neighbours of each vertex are ordered according to their vertex numbers, in what order does a BFS starting at 0 visit the vertices?

23 BFS starting at a vertex s using an array for the queue: Data structures: A queue Q[0..(n-1)] of vertices, qfront, qrear. parent[i]= BFS tree parent of node i. The parent of the root s is s. To initialize: // Set parent of each node to be -1 to indicate // that the vertex has not yet been visited. for (i=0; i < n; i++) parent[i]= -1; // Initialize the queue so that BFS starts at s qfront=0; qrear=1; Q[qfront]= s; parent[s]=s;

24 while (qfront < qrear) // Q is not empty u= Q[qfront]; qfront++; for each neighbour v of u if (parent[v] == -1) // not visited parent[v]= u; Q[qrear]= v; qrear++; end if end for end while

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26 Red arcs represent parent information:

27 The blue spanning tree is the BFS tree.

28 Adjacency matrix:

29 Adjacency list:

30 BFI[v]= Breadth first index of v = step at which v is visited. The BFI[v] is equal to v’s position in the queue.

31 To initialize: // Set parent of each node to be -1 to indicate // that the vertex has not yet been visited. for (i=0; i < n; i++) parent[i]= -1; // Initialize the queue so that BFS starts at s qfront=0; qrear=1; Q[qfront]= s; parent[s]=s; BFI[s]= 0;

32 while (qfront < qrear) // Q is not empty u= Q[qfront]; qfront++; for each neighbour v of u if (parent[v] == -1) // not visited parent[v]= u; BFI[v]= qrear; Q[qrear]= v; qrear++; end if end for end while

33 One application: How many connected components does a graph have and which vertices are in each component?

34 To find the connected components: for (i=0; i < n; i++) parent[i]= -1; nComp= 0; for (i=0; i < n; i++) if (parent[i] == -1) nComp++; BFS(i, parent, component, nComp);

35 BFS(s, parent, component, nComp) // Do not initialize parent. // Initialize the queue so that BFS starts at s qfront=0; qrear=1; Q[qfront]= s; parent[s]=s; component[s]= nComp;

36 while (qfront < qrear) // Q is not empty u= Q[qfront]; qfront++; for each neighbour v of u if (parent[v] == -1) // not visited parent[v]= u; component[v]= nComp; Q[qrear]= v; qrear++; end if end for end while

37 How much time does BFS take to indentify the connected components of a graph when the data structure used for a graph is an adjacency matrix?

38 Adjacency matrix:

39 How much time does BFS take to indentify the connected components of a graph when the data structure used for a graph is an adjacency list?

40 Adjacency list:

41 How could you modify BFS to determine if v is a cut vertex?.

42 A bridge with respect to a subgraph H of a graph G is either: 1.An edge e=(u, v) which is not in H but both u and v are in H. 2.A connected component C of G-H plus any edges that are incident to one vertex in C and one vertex in H plus the endpoints of these edges. How can you find the bridges with respect to a cut vertex v?

43 How can we find a planar embedding of each 2- connected component of a graph? One simple solution: Algorithm by Demoucron, Malgrange and AUTHOR = {G. Demoucron and Y. Malgrange and R. Pertuiset}, TITLE = {Graphes Planaires}, JOURNAL = {Rev. Fran\c{c}aise Recherche Op\'{e}rationnelle}, YEAR = {1964}, VOLUME = {8}, PAGES = {33--47} }

A bridge can be drawn in a face if all its points of attachment lie on that face.

1. Find a bridge which can be drawn in a minimum number of faces (the blue bridge). Demoucron, Malgrange and Pertuiset ’64:

2. Find a path between two points of attachment for that bridge and add the path to the embedding.

No backtracking required for planarity testing!

Gibbons: if G is 2-vertex connected, every bridge of G has at least two points of contact and can therefore be drawn in just two faces. Counterexample:

Graphs homeomorphic to K 5 and K 3,3 : Rashid Bin Muhammad

Kuratowski’s theorem: If G is not planar then it contains a subgraph homeomorphic to K 5 or K 3,3. Topological obstruction for surface S: degrees ≥3,does not embed on S, G-e embeds on S for all e.

Dale Winter Minor Order Obstruction: Topological obstruction and G ۰ e embeds on S for all e. Wagner's theorem: G is planar if and only if it has neither K 5 nor K 3,3 as a minor.

Fact: for any orientable or non-orientable surface, the set of obstructions is finite. Consequence of Robertson & Seymour theory but also proved independently: Orientable surfaces: Bodendiek & Wagner, ’89 Non-orientable: Archdeacon & Huneke, ’89. How many torus obstructions are there? Obstructions for Surfaces

n/m: : : : : : : : : : : : : 3 9 : : : : : : : : : 8 18 : 1 Minor Order Torus Obstructions: 1754

n/m: : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : All Torus Obstructions Found So Far: