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1 The Conjectures of Zarankiewicz and Hill |
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1.1 Drawings with Crossings |
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3 | (11) |
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1.1.2 Distinguishing Drawings of Graphs |
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6 | (4) |
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10 | (2) |
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1.2 Zarankiewicz and the Crossing Number of Complete Bipartite Graphs |
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14 | (7) |
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14 | (4) |
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18 | (2) |
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1.2.3 Asymptotic Behavior |
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20 | (1) |
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1.3 Hill and the Crossing Number of Complete Graphs |
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21 | (9) |
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1.3.2 Asymptotic Behavior |
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27 | (2) |
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29 | (1) |
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30 | (1) |
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31 | (2) |
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33 | (30) |
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2.1 Good Drawings of Complete Graphs |
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33 | (11) |
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33 | (2) |
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35 | (2) |
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2.1.3 Extremal Properties |
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37 | (7) |
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2.2 Crossing Numbers of Graphs |
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44 | (15) |
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2.2.1 Cartesian Products of Graphs |
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44 | (2) |
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2.2.2 Cycles and the Harary-Kainen-Schwenk Conjecture |
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46 | (5) |
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51 | (1) |
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2.2.3 More Complete Graphs |
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52 | (3) |
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2.2.4 Crossing-Critical Graphs |
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55 | (4) |
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59 | (1) |
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59 | (4) |
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3 The Crossing Number and Other Parameters |
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63 | (24) |
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3.1 Bisection Width and Graph Layout |
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63 | (4) |
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3.2 Embeddings and Congestion |
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67 | (1) |
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3.3 Measures of Planarity |
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68 | (3) |
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69 | (1) |
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3.3.2 Edge Crossing Number |
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70 | (1) |
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3.4 Chromatic Number and Albertson's Conjecture |
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71 | (2) |
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73 | (11) |
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3.5.2 Crossings on Surfaces |
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75 | (2) |
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77 | (4) |
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81 | (3) |
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84 | (1) |
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4 Complexity and Algorithms |
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4.1 The Hardness of Crossing Number Problems |
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4.2 Drawing Graphs with Rotation |
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91 | (8) |
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91 | (5) |
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4.2.2 The Cyclic-Order Graphs |
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96 | (3) |
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4.3 Good Drawings of the Complete Graph |
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99 | (5) |
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99 | (3) |
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102 | (2) |
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4.4 Computing the Crossing Number |
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104 | (2) |
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106 | (1) |
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107 | (2) |
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II Crossing Number Variants |
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5 The Rectilinear Crossing Number: Rectilinear and Pseudolinear Drawings |
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111 | (26) |
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111 | (4) |
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5.2 Pseudolines and the Pseudolinear Crossing Number |
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115 | (12) |
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5.2.1 Pseudolines and Wiring Diagrams |
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115 | (2) |
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5.2.2 Pseudolinear and Good Drawings |
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117 | (1) |
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5.2.3 Structure in Pseudolinear Drawings |
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118 | (3) |
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5.2.4 The Pseudolinear Crossing Number |
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121 | (1) |
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5.2.5 Stretchability and Complexity |
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121 | (3) |
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5.2.6 The Complexity of the Rectilinear Crossing Number |
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124 | (3) |
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127 | (7) |
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5.3.1 Enumeration of Rectilinear Drawings |
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127 | (1) |
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5.3.2 Structure in Rectilinear Drawings |
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128 | (6) |
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134 | (1) |
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134 | (3) |
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6 The Rectilinear Crossing Number: Values and Bounds |
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137 | (20) |
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6.1 A Look at the Complete Graph |
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6.1.1 Sylvester's Four Point Problem |
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137 | (1) |
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138 | (5) |
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6.1.3 Lower Bounds and k-Edges |
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143 | (5) |
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6.1.4 Pseudolinear Drawings and Bishellability |
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148 | (5) |
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153 | (2) |
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155 | (1) |
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155 | (2) |
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7 The Local Crossing Number |
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157 | (24) |
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157 | (7) |
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157 | (1) |
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7.1.2 Density of Graphs with Few Local Crossings |
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158 | (4) |
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7.1.3 Local Crossings on Surfaces |
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162 | (2) |
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164 | (5) |
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7.2.1 A Map Coloring Problem |
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164 | (2) |
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7.2.2 Complexity of 1-Planarity Testing |
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166 | (3) |
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169 | (8) |
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7.3.1 Rectilinear 1-planarity |
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169 | (5) |
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7.3.2 Rectilinear Local Crossing Number |
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174 | (3) |
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177 | (2) |
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179 | (1) |
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179 | (2) |
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8 Book and Monotone Crossing Numbers |
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181 | (24) |
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8.1 Embeddings and Drawings in Books |
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181 | (15) |
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8.1.1 Book Embeddings and Their Thickness |
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181 | (6) |
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187 | (1) |
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8.1.2.1 One-Page Drawings |
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187 | (3) |
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8.1.2.2 The Convex Crossing Number |
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190 | (2) |
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192 | (1) |
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8.1.4 The Book Crossing Number |
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193 | (3) |
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196 | (6) |
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196 | (2) |
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8.2.2 The Monotone Crossing Number |
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198 | (4) |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (2) |
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9 The Pair Crossing Number |
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205 | (16) |
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205 | (4) |
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209 | (2) |
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211 | (8) |
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9.3.1 A Separator Theorem |
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216 | (1) |
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9.3.2 Improving the pcr-Bound |
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217 | (2) |
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219 | (1) |
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219 | (2) |
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10 The k-planar Crossing Number |
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221 | (14) |
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221 | (4) |
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225 | (6) |
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10.2.1 Complete Bipartite Graphs |
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225 | (5) |
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230 | (1) |
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231 | (1) |
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10.3 Rectilinear and Geometric k-Planar Crossing Numbers |
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231 | (2) |
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233 | (1) |
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233 | (2) |
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11 The Independent Odd Crossing Number |
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235 | (28) |
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11.1 Removing Even Crossings |
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235 | (4) |
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11.2 The Independent Odd Crossing Number |
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239 | (6) |
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11.2.1 An Algebraic Invariance of Good Drawings |
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239 | (2) |
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11.2.2 The Strong Hanani-Tutte Theorem |
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241 | (3) |
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244 | (1) |
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11.3 Lower Bounds on Odd Crossings |
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245 | (3) |
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11.4 Algebraic Crossing Numbers |
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248 | (2) |
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250 | (8) |
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11.5.1 Translating Separations |
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251 | (2) |
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11.5.2 Algebraic Crossings Matter |
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253 | (2) |
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11.5.3 Odd Crossings Matter |
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255 | (2) |
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11.5.4 Adjacent Crossings Matter |
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257 | (1) |
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11.6 Disjoint Edges in Topological Graphs |
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258 | (3) |
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261 | (1) |
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261 | (2) |
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12 Maximum Crossing Numbers |
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263 | (32) |
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263 | (4) |
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267 | (1) |
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267 | (17) |
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12.3.1 The Thrackle Bound |
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267 | (2) |
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12.3.2 Conway's Thrackle Conjecture |
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269 | (2) |
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12.3.3 Generalized Thrackles |
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271 | (5) |
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276 | (1) |
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277 | (2) |
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12.3.6 Geometric and Monotone Thrackles |
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279 | (3) |
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12.3.7 The Subthrackle Bound |
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282 | (2) |
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12.4 The Subgraph Monotonicity Problem |
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284 | (4) |
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288 | (1) |
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289 | (1) |
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290 | (1) |
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291 | (4) |
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295 | (20) |
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A Basics of Topological Graph Theory |
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297 | (12) |
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297 | (1) |
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A.2 Embeddings and Planar Graphs |
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298 | (3) |
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301 | (1) |
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302 | (2) |
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A.5 Rotations and Embedding Schemes |
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304 | (2) |
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A.6 Crossings in Drawings |
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306 | (1) |
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307 | (1) |
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307 | (2) |
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309 | (6) |
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B.1 Algorithms, Time, and Space |
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309 | (1) |
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B.2 Computational Complexity |
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310 | (2) |
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312 | (1) |
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312 | (3) |
| Bibliography |
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| Index |
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