• Media type: Text; E-Article; Electronic Conference Proceeding
  • Title: On the Edge Crossings of the Greedy Spanner
  • Contributor: Eppstein, David [Author]; Khodabandeh, Hadi [Author]
  • Published: Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik, 2021
  • Language: English
  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.SoCG.2021.33
  • Keywords: Geometric Spanners ; Greedy Spanners ; Crossing Graph ; Separators ; Sparsity
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  • Description: The greedy t-spanner of a set of points in the plane is an undirected graph constructed by considering pairs of points in order by distance, and connecting a pair by an edge when there does not already exist a path connecting that pair with length at most t times the Euclidean distance. We prove that, for any t > 1, these graphs have at most a linear number of crossings, and more strongly that the intersection graph of edges in a greedy t-spanner has bounded degeneracy. As a consequence, we prove a separator theorem for greedy spanners: any k-vertex subgraph of a greedy spanner can be partitioned into sub-subgraphs of size a constant fraction smaller, by the removal of O(√k) vertices. A recursive separator hierarchy for these graphs can be constructed from their planarizations in linear time, or in near-linear time if the planarization is unknown.
  • Access State: Open Access