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20122026
most citedFlip Distance Between Triangulations of a Simple Polygon is NP-Complete

29 citations · 89 across the 22 of their papers we have counts for

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30 papers

cs.CG2026

Deciding monotonicity of simple drawings of the complete graph

Oswin Aichholzer, Thomas Hackl, Alexander Pilz +2

A drawing of a graph is {\em -monotone} if every vertical line intersects each edge of the graph at most once. We present an time algorithm for deciding whether a simpl…

cs.CG2022

Blocking Delaunay Triangulations from the Exterior

Oswin Aichholzer, Thomas Hackl, Maarten Löffler +4

Given two distinct point sets and in the plane, we say that \emph{blocks} if no two points of are adjacent in any Delaunay triangulation of . Aichholze…

cs.CG2022

On Plane Subgraphs of Complete Topological Drawings

Alfredo García, Alexander Pilz, Javier Tejel

Topological drawings are representations of graphs in the plane, where vertices are represented by points, and edges by simple curves connecting the points. A drawing is simple if…

cs.CG2021

On Compatible Matchings

Oswin Aichholzer, Alan Arroyo, Zuzana Masárová +5

A matching is compatible to two or more labeled point sets of size with labels if its straight-line drawing on each of these point sets is crossing-free. We stu…

math.CO2020

Augmenting Geometric Graphs with Matchings

Alexander Pilz, Jonathan Rollin, Lena Schlipf +1

We study noncrossing geometric graphs and their disjoint compatible geometric matchings. Given a cycle (a polygon) P we want to draw a set of pairwise disjoint straight-line edges…

cs.CG2020

Arrangements of Approaching Pseudo-Lines

Stefan Felsner, Alexander Pilz, Patrick Schnider

We consider arrangements of pseudo-lines in the Euclidean plane where each pseudo-line is represented by a bi-infinite connected -monotone curve , $x \in \m…

cs.CG2019

Bisecting three classes of lines

Alexander Pilz, Patrick Schnider

We consider the following problem: Let be an arrangement of lines in colored red, green, and blue. Does there exist a vertical plane such that…

math.CO2019★ 1 cited

Minimal Representations of Order Types by Geometric Graphs

Oswin Aichholzer, Martin Balko, Michael Hoffmann +8

In order to have a compact visualization of the order type of a given point set S, we are interested in geometric graphs on S with few edges that unambiguously display the order ty…

cs.DS2019

Switches in Eulerian graphs

Ahad N. Zehmakan, Jerri Nummenpalo, Alexander Pilz +1

We show that the graph transformation problem of turning a simple graph into an Eulerian one by a minimum number of single edge switches is NP-hard. Further, we show that any simpl…

cs.CG2019

A new lower bound on the maximum number of plane graphs using production matrices

Clemens Huemer, Alexander Pilz, Rodrigo I. Silveira

We use the concept of production matrices to show that there exist sets of points in the plane that admit crossing-free geometric graphs. This improves the previou…

cs.CG2018

From Crossing-Free Graphs on Wheel Sets to Embracing Simplices and Polytopes with Few Vertices

Alexander Pilz, Emo Welzl, Manuel Wettstein

A set of points in general position in the plane is called a wheel set if all points but are extreme. We show that for the purpose of counting crossing…

cs.CG2018

Extending the centerpoint theorem to multiple points

Alexander Pilz, Patrick Schnider

The centerpoint theorem is a well-known and widely used result in discrete geometry. It states that for any point set of points in , there is a point , not…

math.CO2018

Transition Operations over Plane Trees

Torrie L. Nichols, Alexander Pilz, Csaba D. Tóth +1

The operation of transforming one spanning tree into another by replacing an edge has been considered widely, both for general and planar straight-line graphs. For the latter, seve…

cs.CG2018★ 1 cited

A Note on the Flip Distance Problem for Edge-Labeled Triangulations

Alexander Pilz

For both triangulations of point sets and simple polygons, it is known that determining the flip distance between two triangulations is an NP-hard problem. To gain more insight int…

cs.CC2017★ 1 cited

Planar 3-SAT with a Clause/Variable Cycle

Alexander Pilz

In the Planar 3-SAT problem, we are given a 3-SAT formula together with its incidence graph, which is planar, and are asked whether this formula is satisfiable. Since Lichtenstein'…

cs.CG2017★ 2 cited

Geodesic Order Types

Oswin Aichholzer, Matias Korman, Alexander Pilz +1

The geodesic between two points and in the interior of a simple polygon~ is the shortest polygonal path inside that connects to . It is thus the natural gener…

cs.CG2017★ 15 cited

Packing Plane Spanning Trees and Paths in Complete Geometric Graphs

Oswin Aichholzer, Thomas Hackl, Matias Korman +5

We consider the following question: How many edge-disjoint plane spanning trees are contained in a complete geometric graph on any set of points in general position…

math.CO2017

Induced Ramsey-type results and binary predicates for point sets

Martin Balko, Jan Kynčl, Stefan Langerman +1

Let and be positive integers and let be a finite point set in general position in the plane. We say that is -Ramsey if there is a finite point set such t…

cs.CG2017

Packing Short Plane Spanning Graphs in Complete Geometric Graphs

Oswin Aichholzer, Thomas Hackl, Matias Korman +5

Given a set of points in the plane, we want to establish a connection network between these points that consists of several disjoint layers. Motivated by sensor networks, we want t…

cs.CG2015★ 4 cited

An Optimal Algorithm for Reconstructing Point Set Order Types from Radial Orderings

Oswin Aichholzer, Vincent Kusters, Wolfgang Mulzer +2

Let be a set of labeled points in the plane. The radial system of describes, for each , the order in which a ray that rotates around encounters the points i…

cs.CG2015

Ham-Sandwich Cuts for Abstract Order Types

Stefan Felsner, Alexander Pilz

The linear-time ham-sandwich cut algorithm of Lo, Matoušek, and Steiger for bi-chromatic finite point sets in the plane works by appropriately selecting crossings of the lines in t…

cs.CG2015★ 3 cited

The Dual Diameter of Triangulations

Matias Korman, Stefan Langerman, Wolfgang Mulzer +3

Let $\Poly$ be a simple polygon with vertices. The \emph{dual graph} $\triang^*$ of a triangulation~$\triang$ of~$\Poly$ is the graph whose vertices correspond to the bounded f…

cs.CG2013★ 1 cited

Linear transformation distance for bichromatic matchings

Oswin Aichholzer, Luis Barba, Thomas Hackl +2

Let be a set of points in general position, where is a set of blue points and a set of red points. A \emph{-matching} is a plane geometric perf…

cs.CG2013★ 1 cited

Monotone Simultaneous Embedding of Directed Paths

Oswin Aichholzer, Thomas Hackl, Sarah Lutteropp +3

We study monotone simultaneous embeddings of upward planar digraphs, which are simultaneous embeddings where the drawing of each digraph is upward planar, and the directions of the…