Embeddability of arrangements of pseudocircles into the sphere (Q2472840)

The author defines an arrangement of pseudocircles to be a finite set of oriented closed Jordan curves on some closed oriented surface, such that two curves intersect each other into exactly two points where they cross each other. Furthermore, he assumes that no three curves meet each other at the same point (these arrangements are sometimes called ``simple arrangements''). After giving a way to describe abstractly such an arrangement (using intersection matrices), criteria for embeddability of the arrangement into closed surfaces are provided. The main result states that an arrangement of pseudolines is embeddable into the sphere if and only if all its subarrangements of four pseudocircles are embeddable into the sphere as well.