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Crossing-Free Subgraphs

North-Holland mathematics studiesPublished 1 January 1982
Miklós Ajtai, Vašek Chvátal, Monty Newborn, Endre Szemerédi
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Abstract

If m⩾4 then every planar drawing of a graph with n vertices and m edges contains more than m3/100n2 edge-crossings and fewer than 1013n crossing-free subgraphs. The first result settles a conjecture of Erdös and Guy and the second result settles a conjecture of Newborn and Moser.

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