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In this paper, we study the geometric RAC simultaneous drawing problem: Given two planar graphs that share a common vertex set but have disjoint edge sets, a geometric RAC simultaneous drawing is a straight-line drawing in which (i) each graph is drawn planar, (ii) there are no edge overlaps, and, (iii) crossings between edges of the two graphs occur at right-angles. We first prove that two planar graphs admitting a geometric simultaneous drawing may not admit a geometric RAC simultaneous drawing. We further show that a cycle and a matching always admit a geometric RAC simultaneous drawing, which can be constructed in linear time.
We also study a closely related problem according to which we are given a planar embedded graph G and the main goal is to determine a geometric drawing of G and its dual G * (without the face-vertex corresponding to the external face) such that: (i) G and G * are drawn planar, (ii) each vertex of the dual is drawn inside its corresponding face of G and, (iii) the primal-dual edge crossings form right-angles. We prove that it is always possible to construct such a drawing if the input graph is an outerplanar embedded graph.
The work of E.N. Argyriou has been co-financed by the European Union (European Social Fund - ESF) and Greek national funds through the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” of the National Strategic Reference Framework (NSRF) - Research Funding Program: Heracleitus II. Investing in knowledge society through the European Social Fund. The work of M.A. Bekos is implemented within the framework of the Action “Supporting Postdoctoral Researchers” of the Operational Program “Education and Lifelong Learning” (Action’s Beneficiary: General Secretariat for Research and Technology), and is co-financed by the European Social Fund (ESF) and the Greek State.
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Argyriou, E., Bekos, M., Kaufmann, M., Symvonis, A. (2012). Geometric RAC Simultaneous Drawings of Graphs. In: Gudmundsson, J., Mestre, J., Viglas, T. (eds) Computing and Combinatorics. COCOON 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7434. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32241-9_25
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