Csaba
D. Tóth
Associate Professor
Department of Mathematics
California State University, Northridge
Room SN 434, 18111 Nordhoff St
Northridge, CA 91330-8313
Phone: (818) 677-2826
cdtoth ♠ acm.org
Manuscripts
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Recognizing weak embeddings of graphs,
- Hugo A. Akitaya, Radoslav Fulek, and Csaba D. Tóth,
- manuscript, 2017.
- (abstract)
We present an efficient algorithm for a problem in the interface between clustering and graph embeddings. An embedding φ:G→M of a graph G into a manifold M maps the vertices in V(G) to distinct points and the edges in E(G) to interior-disjoint Jordan arcs between the corresponding vertices. In applications in clustering, cartography, and visualization, nearby vertices and edges are often bundled to a common node or arc, due to data compression or low resolution. This raises the computational problem of deciding whether a given map φ:G→M comes from an embedding. A map φ:G→M is a weak embedding if it can be perturbed into an embedding ψε:G→M with ∥φ-ψε∥<ε for every ε>0.
A polynomial-time algorithm for recognizing weak embeddings was recently found by Fulek and Kynčl (2017): It reduces to solving a system of linear equations over Z2, and it runs in O(n2ω)≤O(n4.75) time, where ω<2.373 is the matrix multiplication exponent and n is the number of vertices and edges of G. We improve the running time to O(n log n). Our algorithm is also conceptually simpler: We perform a sequence of local operations that gradually ``untangles'' the image φ(G) into an embedding ψ(G), or reports that φ is not a weak embedding. It generalizes a recent technique developed for the case that G is a cycle and the embedding is a simple polygon, and combines local constraints on the orientation of subgraphs directly, thereby eliminating the need for solving large systems of linear equations.
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Optimal cutting of a polygon by lasers,
- Esther Arkin, Peter Brass, Rathish Das, Jie Gao, Mayank Goswami, Joseph S.B. Mitchell, Valentin Polishchuk, and Csaba D. Tóth,
- in Abstracts of the 26th Fall Workshop on Computational Geometry (New York, NY, 2016).
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