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Abstract Order Type Extension and New Results on the Rectilinear Crossing
Number
Oswin Aichholzer
Institute for SoftwaretechnologyGraz University of Technology
Graz, Austria
Hannes KrasserInstitute for Theoretical Computer
ScienceGraz University of Technology
Graz, Austria
ACM Symposium on Computational Geometry (SoCG), Pisa, Italy, 2005
Point Sets
- finite point sets in the real plane 2
- in general position- with different crossing properties
Crossing Properties
point set
complete straight-line graph Kn
crossingno crossing
Crossing Properties
no crossing
4 points:
crossing
order type of point set: mapping that assigns to each ordered triple of points its orientation Goodman, Pollack, 1983
orientation:
Order Type
left/positive right/negative
a
bc
a
bc
Order Type
Point sets of same order type there exists a bijection s.t. eitherall (or none) corresponding triples are of equal orientation
Point sets of same order type
2
41
33
1
2
4
5
5
Order Type
How to decide whether 2 point sets are of the same order type?
- encoding order types: λ-matrix Goodman, Pollack, Multidimensional Sorting. 1983
- S={p1, ..,pn} .. labelled point set λ(i,j) .. number of points of S on the left of the oriented line through pi and pj
- Theorem: order type λ-matrix Goodman, Pollack, Multidimensional Sorting. 1983
Order Type
Order Type
- natural λ-matrix: p1 on the convex hull, p2, ..,pn sorted clockwise around p1
Order Type
- natural λ-matrix: p1 on the convex hull, p2, ..,pn sorted clockwise around p1
- lexicographically minimal λ-matrix: unique „fingerprint“ for an order type
- same order type identical lexicographically minimal λ-matrices
Order Type Extension
complete order type extension:
- input: order type Sn of n points
- output: all different order types Sn+1 of n+1 points that contain Sn as a sub-order type
arrangement of lines cells
Order Type Extension
Order Type Extension
extending point set realizations of order types with one additional point is not a complete order type extension
line arrangement not unique
Order Type Extension
point-line duality: p T(p)
a
b
cT(a)
T(b)
T(c)
bc ac ab
Order Type Extension
point-line duality: p T(p)
a
b
c
T(a)
T(b)
T(c)
ab ac bc
Order Type Extension
order type local intersection sequence (point set) (line arrangement)
point-line duality: p T(p)
Order Type Extension
line arrangement
Order Type Extension
pseudoline arrangement
Order Type Extension
order type local intersection sequence (point set) (line arrangement)
point-line duality: p T(p)
abstract local intersection sequence order type (pseudoline arrangement)
Order Type Extension
Abstract order type extension algorithm:- duality abstract order type pseudoline arrangement- extend pseudoline arrangement with an additional pseudoline in all combinatorial different ways (local intersection sequences)- decide realizability of extended abstract order type (optional)
Enumerating Order Types
Task: Enumerate all order types of point sets in the plane (for small, fixed size and in general position)
Order Type Data Base
number of points 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11
projective abstract o.t.
1 1 1 4 11 135 4 382 312356 41 848 591
- thereof non-realizable
1 242 155 214
= project. order types
1 1 1 4 11 135 4 381 312 114 41 693 377
abstract order types 1 2 3 16
135 3 315 158 830
14 320 182
2 343 203 071
- thereof non-realizable
13 10 635 8 690 164
= order types 1 2 3 16
135 3 315 158 817
14 309 547
2 334 512 907
Order type data base for n≤10 pointsAichholzer, Aurenhammer, Krasser, Enumerating order types for small point sets with applications. 2001
Our work: extension to n=11 points 16-bit integer coordinates, >100 GB
Order Type Extension
Extension to n=12, 13, … ?- 750 billion order types for n=12- too many for complete data base - partial extension of data base- obtain results on „suitable
applications“ for 12 and beyond…
Subset Property
„suitable applications“: subset property
Property valid for Sn and there exists Sn-1 s.t. similar property holds for Sn-1
Sn .. order type of n pointsSn-1 .. subset of Sn of n-1 points
Order Type Extension
Order type extension with subset property:- order type data base result set of order types for n=11 - enumerate all order types of 12 points that contain one of these 11-point order types as a subset- filter 12-point order types according to subset property
Rectilinear Crossing Number
Application: Rectilinear crossing number of complete graph Kn
minimum number of crossings attained by a straight-line drawing of the complete graph Kn in the plane
Rectilinear Crossing Number
n 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12
cr(Kn
)0 0 1 3 9 19 36 62 10
215
3
dn1 1 1 1 3 2 10 2 374 1
cr(Kn) .. rectilinear crossing number of Kn
dn .. number of combinatorially different drawings
Aichholzer, Aurenhammer, Krasser, On the crossing number of complete graphs. 2002
What numbers are known so far?
Order type extension (rectilinear crossing number of Kn): Enumerate order types with „few“ crossings
Subset property: Drawing of Kn on Sn with „few“ crossings contains at least one drawing of Kn-1 on Sn-1
with „few“ crossings
Rectilinear Crossing Number
Subset property: Drawing of Kn on Sn has c crossings at least one drawing of Kn-1 on Sn-1
has at most c·(n-4)/n crossings
Parity property: n odd c ( ) (mod 2)
Rectilinear Crossing Number
n
4
Rectilinear Crossing Number
Not known: cr(K13)=229 ? K13 .. 227 crossings K12 .. 157 crossings K12 .. 157 crossings K11 .. 104 crossings
Not known: d13= ? K13 .. 229 crossings K12 .. 158 crossings K12 .. 158 crossings K11 .. 104 crossings
Rectilinear Crossing Number
n 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
12 a ≤100 ≤152
12 b ≤102 ≤153
13 a ≤104 ≤157 ≤227
13 b ≤158 ≤229
14 a ≤323
14 b ≤106 ≤159 ≤231 ≤324
15 a ≤326 ≤445
15 b ≤161 ≤233 ≤327 ≤447
16 a ≤108 ≤162 ≤235 ≤330 ≤451 ≤602
16 b ≤603
17 a ≤164 ≤237 ≤333 ≤455 ≤608 ≤796
17 b ≤110 ≤165 ≤239 ≤335 ≤457 ≤610 ≤798
Rectilinear Crossing Number
crossings 102 104 106 108 110
order types 374 3 984 17 896 47 471 102 925
Extension of the complete data base: 2 334 512 907 order types for n=11
Extension for rectilinear crossing number:
Order Type Extension
Problem: Order types of size 12 may contain multiple start order types of size 11 some order types are generated in multiple
Avoiding multiple generation of order types- Order type extension graph: nodes .. order types in extension algorithm edges .. for each generated order type of size n+1 (son) define a unique sub-order type of size n (father)
Order Type Extension
- Extension only along edges of order type extension graph each order type is generated exactly once- distributed computing can be applied to abstract order type extension: independent calculation for each starting 11-point order type
Extension graph (rectilinear crossing number): - point causing most crossings- largest index in the lexicographically minimal λ-matrix representation
Rectilinear Crossing Number
Rectilinear Crossing Number
n 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17
cr(Kn
)0 0 1 3 9 19 36 62 10
215
322
932
4447 60
3798
dn1 1 1 1 3 2 10 2 374 1 453
420 1600
136 3726
9
cr(Kn) .. rectilinear crossing number of Kn
dn .. number of combinatorially different drawings
New results on the rectilinear crossing number:
Rectilinear Crossing Constant
Problem: rectilinear crossing constant,asymptotics of rectilinear crossing number
)(lim
4/)()(
* n
nKcrn
n
n
Rectilinear Crossing Constant
- best known lower bound: Balogh, Salazar, On k-sets, convex quadrilaterals, and the rectilinear crossing number of Kn.
37533.0*
- lower bound: Lovász, Vesztergombi, Wagner, Welzl, Convex quadrilaterals and k-sets. 2003
5* 10for 375.0
- best known upper bound: large point set with few crossings, lens substitution
- improved upper bound: set of 54 points with 115 999 crossings, lens substitution
38058.0*
Rectilinear Crossing Constant
38074.0* Aichholzer, Aurenhammer, Krasser, On the crossing number of complete graphs. 2002
- further improvement: set of 45 points with 54 213 crossings, recursive substitution
- possible further improvement: abstract set of 96 points with 1 238 508 crossings
38046.0*
Rectilinear Crossing Constant
38056.0*
realizable ??
Further Applications
„Happy End Problem“:What is the minimum number g(k) s.t. each point set with at least g(k) points contains a convex k-gon?
- No exact values g(k) are known for k6.- Conjecture:
Erdös, Szekeres, A combinatorial problem in geometry. 1935
12g(k) 2k
17g(6)
Order type extension (6-gon problem): Enumerate all order types that do not contain a convex 6-gon
Subset property: Sn contains no convex 6-gon each subset Sn-1 contains no convex 6-gon
Further Applications
Further Applications
Start: n=11 ... 235 987 328 order types n=12 ... 14 048 972 314 (abstract) o.t. n=13 ... 800 109 order types
Future goal: Solve the case of convex 6-gons by a distributed computing approach
Further Applications
Counting the number of triangulations:- exact values for n≤11- best asymptotic lower bound is based on these result Aichholzer, Hurtado, Noy, A lower bound on the number of triangulations of planar point sets. 2004
- subset property: adding a point increases the number of triangulations by a constant factor- calculations: to be done…
Abstract Order Type…
Thank you!