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Discrete Mathematics
Volume 292, Issues 1-3, 28 March 2005, Pages 95-106
 
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Acute triangles in 4-connected maximal plane graphs

Ken-ichi Kawarabayashia, Atsuhiro Nakamotob, Yoshiaki Odac, E-mail The Corresponding Author 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

Article Outline

1. Introduction
2. Contractions of edges and faces
3. Proof of our main theorem
Acknowledgements
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