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Tangled Thrackles

2012
Conference Papers

Abstract

A tangle is a graph drawn in the plane so that any pair of edges have precisely one point in common, and this point is either an endpoint or a point of tangency. If we allow a third option: the common point may be a proper crossing between the two edges, then the graph is called a tangled thrackle. We establish the following analogues of Conway's thrackle conjecture: The number of edges of a tangle cannot exceed its number of vertices, n. We also prove that the number of edges of an x-monotone tangled thrackle with n vertices is at most n + 1. Both results are tight for n > 3. For not necessarily x-monotone tangled thrackles, we have a somewhat weaker, but nearly linear, upper bound. © 2012 Springer-Verlag.

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2012
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/97986e13-0923-4e5b-9c02-9957f93f5bf0

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