{"title":"An optimal construction for complete graph embeddings with duals of low connectivity","authors":"Timothy Sun","doi":"10.1016/j.disc.2025.114628","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We describe a construction for embeddings of complete graphs where the dual has a cutvertex and the genus of the embedding is close to the minimum genus of the primal graph. When the number of vertices is congruent to 2 or 5 modulo 12, we further guarantee that the dual is simple and that the genus of the resulting embeddings matches a lower bound of Brinkmann, Noguchi, and Van den Camp, showing that their lower bound is tight infinitely often.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":50572,"journal":{"name":"Discrete Mathematics","volume":"348 12","pages":"Article 114628"},"PeriodicalIF":0.7000,"publicationDate":"2025-06-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Discrete Mathematics","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0012365X25002365","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"MATHEMATICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
We describe a construction for embeddings of complete graphs where the dual has a cutvertex and the genus of the embedding is close to the minimum genus of the primal graph. When the number of vertices is congruent to 2 or 5 modulo 12, we further guarantee that the dual is simple and that the genus of the resulting embeddings matches a lower bound of Brinkmann, Noguchi, and Van den Camp, showing that their lower bound is tight infinitely often.
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Discrete Mathematics provides a common forum for significant research in many areas of discrete mathematics and combinatorics. Among the fields covered by Discrete Mathematics are graph and hypergraph theory, enumeration, coding theory, block designs, the combinatorics of partially ordered sets, extremal set theory, matroid theory, algebraic combinatorics, discrete geometry, matrices, and discrete probability theory.
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