Bounding generalized coloring numbers of planar graphs using coin models (Q6199193)

Summary: We study Koebe orderings of planar graphs: vertex orderings obtained by modelling the graph as the intersection graph of pairwise internally-disjoint discs in the plane, and ordering the vertices by non-increasing radii of the associated discs. We prove that for every \(d\in \mathbb{N} \), any such ordering has \(d\)-admissibility bounded by \(O(d/\ln d)\) and weak \(d\)-coloring number bounded by \(O(d^4 \ln d)\). This in particular shows that the \(d\)-admissibility of planar graphs is bounded by \(O(d/\ln d)\), which asymptotically matches a known lower bound due to Dvořák and Siebertz.