Degree
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Department
Mathematics
Document Type
Dissertation
Abstract
In this work we present results on crossing-critical graphs drawn on non-planar surfaces and results on edge-hamiltonicity of graphs on the Klein bottle. We first give an infinite family of graphs that are 2-crossing-critical on the projective plane. Using this result, we construct 2-crossing-critical graphs for each non-orientable surface. Next, we use 2-amalgamations to construct 2-crossing-critical graphs for each orientable surface other than the sphere. Finally, we contribute to the pursuit of characterizing 4-connected graphs that embed on the Klein bottle and fail to be edge-hamiltonian. We show that known 4-connected counterexamples to edge-hamiltonicity on the Klein bottle are hamiltonian and their structure allows restoration of edge-hamiltonicity with only a small change.
Date
6-11-2018
Recommended Citation
Fallon, Joshua E., "Two Results in Drawing Graphs on Surfaces" (2018). LSU Doctoral Dissertations. 4611.
https://repository.lsu.edu/gradschool_dissertations/4611
Committee Chair
Oporowski, Bogdan
DOI
10.31390/gradschool_dissertations.4611