doi:10.1016/j.disc.2004.09.008
Copyright © 2005 Published by Elsevier B.V.
Acute triangles in 4-connected maximal plane graphs
Ken-ichi Kawarabayashia, Atsuhiro Nakamotob, Yoshiaki Odac,
and Mamoru Watanabed
aGraduate School of Information Sciences (GSIS), Tohoku University, Aramaki aza Aoba 09, Aoba-ku, Sendai 980-8579, Japan
bDepartment of Mathematics, Yokohama National University, 79-2 Tokiwadai, Hodogaya-ku, Yokohama 240-8501, Japan
cDepartment of Mathematics, Keio University, 3-14-1 Hiyoshi, Kohoku-ku, Yokohama 223-8522, Japan
dDepartment of Computer Science and Mathematics, Kurashiki University of Science and the Arts, 2640 Nishinoura, Tsurajima-cho, Kurashiki 712-8505, Japan.
Received 10 July 2001;
revised 23 August 2004;
accepted 21 September 2004.
Available online 7 March 2005.
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Abstract
In this paper, we show that every 4-connected maximal plane graph with m finite faces other than the octahedron can be drawn in the plane so that at least (m+3)/2 faces are acute triangles. Moreover, this bound is sharp.
Keywords: Acute triangles; 4-Connected maximal plane graphs; Straight-line embeddings; Contractions
Fig. 1. A contraction of an edge e.
Fig. 2. A contraction of a triangle xyz.
Fig. 3. A structure of F.
Fig. 4. Two possibilities for Gl-1.
Fig. 6. A 4-connected plane triangulation Hp.
Fig. 7. An embedding of H1 which contains six acute triangles.
Fig. 8. Case that both R and S are acute triangles.
Fig. 9. Case that both A and B are nonacute triangles.