Josef Cibulka

Hamiltonian Alternating Paths on Bicolored Double-Chains

We find arbitrarily large finite sets S of points in general position in the plane with the following property. If the points of S are equitably 2-colored (i.e., the sizes of the two color classes differ by at most one), then there is a polygonal line consisting of straight-line segments with endpoints in S , which is Hamiltonian, non-crossing, and alternating (i.e., each point of S is visited exactly once, every two non-consecutive segments are disjoint, and every segment connects points of different colors). We show that the above property holds for so-called double-chains with each of the two chains containing at least one fifth of all the points. Our proof is constructive and can be turned into a linear-time algorithm. On the other hand, we show that the above property does not hold for double-chains in which one of the chains contains at most ≈ 1/29 of all the points.

Untangling Polygons and Graphs

Untangling is a process in which some vertices in a drawing of a planar graph are moved to obtain a straight-line plane drawing. The aim is to move as few vertices as possible. We present an algorithm that untangles the cycle graph Cn while keeping Ω(n2/3) vertices fixed.For any connected graph G, we also present an upper bound on the number of fixed vertices in the worst case. The bound is a function of the number of vertices, maximum degree, and diameter of G. One consequence is that every 3-connected planar graph has a drawing δ such that at most O((nlog n)2/3) vertices are fixed in every untangling of δ.

On the Geometric Ramsey Number of Outerplanar Graphs

We prove polynomial upper bounds of geometric Ramsey numbers of pathwidth-

Solution of Peter Winkler's Pizza Problem

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Drawing Graphs Using a Small Number of Obstacles

2 outerplanar triangulations in both convex and general cases. We also prove that the geometric Ramsey numbers of the ladder graph on

On planar point sets with the pentagon property

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