Arcs intersecting at most once

DOI10.1007/S00039-015-0320-0zbMATH Open1319.57016arXiv1402.1570OpenAlexW2591601825WikidataQ59405725 ScholiaQ59405725MaRDI QIDQ2345936FDOQ2345936

Authors: Piotr Przytycki 

Publication date: 21 May 2015

Published in: Geometric and Functional Analysis. GAFA (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: We prove that on a punctured oriented surface with Euler characteristic chi < 0, the maximal cardinality of a set of essential simple arcs that are pairwise non-homotopic and intersecting at most once is 2|chi|(|chi|+1). This gives a cubic estimate in |chi| for a set of curves pairwise intersecting at most once on a closed surface. We also give polynomial estimates in |chi| for sets of arcs and curves pairwise intersecting a uniformly bounded number of times. Finally, we prove that on a punctured sphere the maximal cardinality of a set of arcs starting and ending at specified punctures and pairwise intersecting at most once is 1/2|chi|(|chi|+1).

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1402.1570

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zbMATH Keywords

surfacetriangulationshomotopyclosed curvesembeddings of graphs

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Relations of low-dimensional topology with graph theory (57M15)

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