Reappraising the distribution of the number of edge crossings of graphs on a sphere

03/06/2020
by   Lluís Alemany-Puig, et al.
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Many real transportation and mobility networks have their vertices placed on the surface of the Earth. In such embeddings, the edges laid on that surface may cross. In his pioneering research, Moon analyzed the distribution of the number of crossings on complete graphs and complete bipartite graphs whose vertices are located uniformly at random on the surface of a sphere assuming that vertex placements are independent from each other. Here we revise his derivation of that variance in the light of recent theoretical developments on the variance of crossings and computer simulations. We show that Moon's formula underestimates the true variance and provide exact formulae.

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