Date of Award
8-2014
Level of Access Assigned by Author
Open-Access Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts (MA)
Department
Mathematics
Advisor
Robert Franzosa
Second Committee Member
Andrew Knightly
Third Committee Member
Benjamin Weiss
Abstract
A prominent question of topological graph theory is "what type of surface can a nonplanar graph be embedded into?" This thesis has two main goals. First to provide a necessary background in topology and graph theory to understand the development of an embedding algorithm. The main purpose is developing and proving a direct constructive embedding algorithm that takes as input the graph with a particular order of edges about each vertex. The embedding algorithm will not only determine which compact surface the graph can be embedded into, but also determines the particular embedding of the graph on the surface. The embedding algorithm is then used to investigate surfaces into which trees and a class of the complete bipartite graphs can be embedded. Further, the embedding algorithm is used to investigate non-surface separating graph embeddings.
Recommended Citation
Potoczak, Sophia N., "Survey of Graph Embeddings into Compact Surfaces" (2014). Electronic Theses and Dissertations. 2155.
https://digitalcommons.library.umaine.edu/etd/2155