On the bend-number of planar and outerplanar graphs
arXiv:1112.3353
Abstract
The bend-number b(G) of a graph G is the minimum k such that G may be represented as the edge intersection graph of a set of grid paths with at most k bends. We confirm a conjecture of Biedl and Stern showing that the maximum bend-number of outerplanar graphs is 2. Moreover we improve the formerly known lower and upper bound for the maximum bend-number of planar graphs from 2 and 5 to 3 and 4, respectively.
appears in proceedings of 10th Latin American Symposium on Theoretical Informatics (LATIN 2012)