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1. Planar Graphs andPartially Ordered Sets William T. Trotter
Georgia Institute of Technology
 
2. Inclusion Orders 
3. Incidence Posets 
4. Vertex-Edge Posets 
5. Vertex-Edge-Face Posets 
6. Vertex-Edge-Face Posets for    Planar Graphs 
7. Triangle Orders 
8. Circle Orders 
9. N-gon Orders 
10. Dimension of Posets The dimension of a poset  P  is the least  t  so that  P  is the intersection of  t  linear orders.
Alternately, dim(P)  is the least  t  for which  P  is isomorphic to a subposet of  Rt 
11. A 2-dimensional poset 
12. A  3-dimensional poset 
13. A Family of  3-dimensional Posets 
14. Standard Examples of    n-dimensional posets 
15. Another Example of  an    n-dimensional Poset 
16. Complexity Issues It is easy to show that the question:  dim(P) = 2?  is in  P.
Yannakakis showed in 1982 that the question:  dim(P) = t?  is  NP-complete for fixed t = 3.
The question: dim(P) = t? is NP-complete for height 2 posets for fixed  t = 4.
Still not known whether:  dim(P) = 3? is NP-complete for height 2 posets. 
17. Schnyders Theorem (1989) 
 
18. Proposition 
19. Schnyders Theorem (restated) 
20. 3-Connected Planar Graphs Theorem (Brightwell and Trotter, 1993):  If  G  is a planar  3-connected graph and  P  is the vertex-edge-face poset of  G, then  dim(P) = 4.
The removal of any vertex or any face from  P  reduces the dimension to  3. 
21. Convex Polytopes in  R3 
22. Convex Polytopes in  R3 Theorem (Brightwell and Trotter, 1993):  If  M  is a convex polytope in  R3  and  P  is its vertex-edge-face poset, then  dim(P) = 4.
The removal of any vertex or face from  P reduces the dimension to  3. 
23. Planar Multigraphs 
24. Planar Multigraphs Theorem (Brightwell and Trotter, 1997):  Let  D  be a non-crossing drawing of a planar multigraph  G, and let  P  be the vertex-edge-face poset determined by  D.  Then  dim(P) = 4.
Different drawings may determine posets with different dimensions. 
25. The Kissing Coins Theorem 
26. Planar Graphs and Circle Orders 
27. Remarks on Circle Orders Every poset of dimension at most  2 is a circle order  in fact with circles having co-linear centers.
Using Warrens theorem and the Alon/Scheinerman degrees of freedom technique, it follows that almost all  4-dimensional posets are not circle orders. 
28. Standard Examples are    Circle Orders 
29. More Remarks on Circle Orders Every  2-dimensional poset is a circle order.
For each  t = 3, some  t-dimensional posets are circle orders.
But, for each fixed  t = 4, almost all t-dimensional posets are not circle orders.
Every  3-dimensional poset is an ellipse order with parallel major axes. 
30. Fundamental Question for     Circle Orders (1984) 
31. Support for a Yes Answer 
32. Support for a No Answer 
33. More Troubling News 
34. A Triumph for Ramsey Theory 
35. Schnyders Theorem 
36. Easy Direction (Babai and Duffus, 1981) 
37. Easy Direction 
38. The Proof of Schnyders Theorem Normal labelings of rooted planar triangulations.
Uniform angle lemma.
Explicit decomposition into 3 forests.
Inclusion property
Three auxiliary partial orders
 
39. A Normal Labeling 
40. Normal Labeling - 1 
41. Normal Labeling - 2 
42. Normal Labeling - 3 
43. Lemma (Schnyder) 
44. Uniform Angles on a Cycle 
45. Uniform Angle Lemma (Schnyder) 
46. Suppose  C  has no Uniform 0 
47. Case 1:  C  has a Chord 
48. Uniform 0 on Top Part 
49. Uniform 0  on Bottom Part 
50. Faces Labeled Clockwise:    Contradiction!! 
51. Case 2:  C has No Chords 
52. Remove a Boundary Edge 
53. Without Loss of Generality 
54. Labeling Properties Imply: 
55. Remove Next Edge 
56. Continue Around Cycle 
57. The Contradiction 
58. Three Special Edges 
59. Shared Edges 
60. Local Definition of a Path 
61. Red Path from an Interior Vertex 
62. Red Path from an Interior Vertex 
63. Red Path from an Interior Vertex 
64. Red Path from an Interior Vertex 
65. Red Cycle of Interior Vertices?? 
66. Red Path Ends at Exterior Vertex  r0 
67. Red and Green Paths Intersect?? 
68. Three Vertex Disjoint Paths 
69. Inclusion Property for   Three Regions 
70. Explicit Partition into  3  Forests 
71. Final Steps The regions define three inclusion orders on the vertex set.
Take three linear extensions.
Insert the edges as low as possible.
The resulting three linear extensions have the incidence poset as their intersection.
Thus,  dim(P) = 3. 
72. Grid Layouts of Planar Graphs 
73. Corollary (Schnyder, 1990) 
74. Algebraic Structure