{"oa":1,"oa_version":"Preprint","series_title":"Lecture Notes in Computer Science","date_created":"2018-12-11T11:56:32Z","user_id":"2DF688A6-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","publisher":"Springer","scopus_import":1,"quality_controlled":"1","title":"Untangling two systems of noncrossing curves","related_material":{"record":[{"status":"public","relation":"later_version","id":"1411"}]},"status":"public","alternative_title":["LNCS"],"type":"conference","day":"01","month":"09","date_updated":"2023-02-21T17:03:07Z","date_published":"2013-09-01T00:00:00Z","publication_status":"published","department":[{"_id":"UlWa"}],"main_file_link":[{"open_access":"1","url":"http://arxiv.org/abs/1302.6475"}],"abstract":[{"lang":"eng","text":"We consider two systems (α1,...,αm) and (β1,...,βn) of curves drawn on a compact two-dimensional surface ℳ with boundary. Each αi and each βj is either an arc meeting the boundary of ℳ at its two endpoints, or a closed curve. The αi are pairwise disjoint except for possibly sharing endpoints, and similarly for the βj. We want to &quot;untangle&quot; the βj from the αi by a self-homeomorphism of ℳ; more precisely, we seek an homeomorphism φ: ℳ → ℳ fixing the boundary of ℳ pointwise such that the total number of crossings of the αi with the φ(βj) is as small as possible. This problem is motivated by an application in the algorithmic theory of embeddings and 3-manifolds. We prove that if ℳ is planar, i.e., a sphere with h ≥ 0 boundary components (&quot;holes&quot;), then O(mn) crossings can be achieved (independently of h), which is asymptotically tight, as an easy lower bound shows. In general, for an arbitrary (orientable or nonorientable) surface ℳ with h holes and of (orientable or nonorientable) genus g ≥ 0, we obtain an O((m + n)4) upper bound, again independent of h and g. "}],"intvolume":"      8242","publist_id":"4707","volume":8242,"year":"2013","acknowledgement":"We would like to thank the authors of [GHR13] for mak- ing a draft of their paper available to us, and, in particular, T. Huynh for an e-mail correspondence.","project":[{"name":"Embeddings in Higher Dimensions: Algorithms and Combinatorics","_id":"25FA3206-B435-11E9-9278-68D0E5697425","grant_number":"PP00P2_138948"}],"doi":"10.1007/978-3-319-03841-4_41","page":"472 - 483","author":[{"first_name":"Jiří","last_name":"Matoušek","full_name":"Matoušek, Jiří"},{"full_name":"Sedgwick, Eric","first_name":"Eric","last_name":"Sedgwick"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-1191-6714","full_name":"Tancer, Martin","id":"38AC689C-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Martin","last_name":"Tancer"},{"orcid":"0000-0002-1494-0568","full_name":"Wagner, Uli","id":"36690CA2-F248-11E8-B48F-1D18A9856A87","first_name":"Uli","last_name":"Wagner"}],"external_id":{"arxiv":["1302.6475"]},"conference":{"location":"Bordeaux, France","end_date":"2013-09-25","start_date":"2013-09-23","name":"GD: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization"},"citation":{"ieee":"J. Matoušek, E. Sedgwick, M. Tancer, and U. Wagner, “Untangling two systems of noncrossing curves,” vol. 8242. Springer, pp. 472–483, 2013.","mla":"Matoušek, Jiří, et al. <i>Untangling Two Systems of Noncrossing Curves</i>. Vol. 8242, Springer, 2013, pp. 472–83, doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03841-4_41\">10.1007/978-3-319-03841-4_41</a>.","short":"J. Matoušek, E. Sedgwick, M. Tancer, U. Wagner, 8242 (2013) 472–483.","ama":"Matoušek J, Sedgwick E, Tancer M, Wagner U. Untangling two systems of noncrossing curves. 2013;8242:472-483. doi:<a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03841-4_41\">10.1007/978-3-319-03841-4_41</a>","apa":"Matoušek, J., Sedgwick, E., Tancer, M., &#38; Wagner, U. (2013). Untangling two systems of noncrossing curves. Presented at the GD: Graph Drawing and Network Visualization, Bordeaux, France: Springer. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03841-4_41\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03841-4_41</a>","ista":"Matoušek J, Sedgwick E, Tancer M, Wagner U. 2013. Untangling two systems of noncrossing curves. 8242, 472–483.","chicago":"Matoušek, Jiří, Eric Sedgwick, Martin Tancer, and Uli Wagner. “Untangling Two Systems of Noncrossing Curves.” Lecture Notes in Computer Science. Springer, 2013. <a href=\"https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03841-4_41\">https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-03841-4_41</a>."},"language":[{"iso":"eng"}],"_id":"2244"}