There is a unique crossing-minimal rectilinear drawing of K_18

Bernardo M. Ábrego, Silvia Fernández-Merchant, Oswin Aichholzer, Jesús Leaños, Gelasio Salazar

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Abstract

We show that, up to order type isomorphism, there is a unique crossing-minimal rectilinear drawing of K18. It is easily verified that this drawing does not contain any crossing-minimal drawing of K17. Therefore this settles, in the negative, the following question from Aichholzer and Krasser: is it true that, for every integer n ≥ 4, there exists a crossing-minimal drawing of Kn that contains a crossing-minimal drawing of Kn − 1?
Original languageEnglish
Number of pages29
JournalArs Mathematica Contemporanea
Volume24
Issue number2
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2024

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