Counting triangulations of planar point sets
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 18 (2011) no. 1
We study the maximal number of triangulations that a planar set of $n$ points can have, and show that it is at most $30^n$. This new bound is achieved by a careful optimization of the charging scheme of Sharir and Welzl (2006), which has led to the previous best upper bound of $43^n$ for the problem. Moreover, this new bound is useful for bounding the number of other types of planar (i.e., crossing-free) straight-line graphs on a given point set. Specifically, it can be used to derive new upper bounds for the number of planar graphs ($207.84^n$), spanning cycles ($O(68.67^n)$), spanning trees ($O(146.69^n)$), and cycle-free graphs ($O(164.17^n)$).
DOI :
10.37236/557
Classification :
05C35, 05C80, 05C07
Mots-clés : triangulations, counting, charging schemes, crossing-free graphs
Mots-clés : triangulations, counting, charging schemes, crossing-free graphs
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author = {Micha Sharir and Adam Sheffer},
title = {Counting triangulations of planar point sets},
journal = {The electronic journal of combinatorics},
year = {2011},
volume = {18},
number = {1},
doi = {10.37236/557},
zbl = {1218.05072},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.37236/557/}
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Micha Sharir; Adam Sheffer. Counting triangulations of planar point sets. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 18 (2011) no. 1. doi: 10.37236/557
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