Representing Graphs and Hypergraphs by Touching Polygons in 3D

08/22/2019
by   William Evans, et al.
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Contact representations of graphs have a long history. Most research has focused on problems in 2d, but 3d contact representations have also been investigated, mostly concerning fully-dimensional geometric objects such as spheres or cubes. In this paper we study contact representations with convex polygons n 3d. We show that every graph admits such a representation. Since our representations use super-polynomial coordinates, we also construct representations on grids of polynomial size for specific graph classes (bipartite, subcubic). For hypergraphs, we represent their duals, that is, each vertex is represented by a point and each edge by a polygon. We show that even regular and quite small hypergraphs do not admit such representations. On the other hand, the Steiner triple systems S(2,3,7) and S(2,3,9) can be represented.

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