Saturday, 25 December 2010

How many dimensions I need to embed a graph?

As Charles points out, you can always embed a graph in three dimensions. The interesting question is how complicated a surface one needs to embed a graph into. The number of handles one has to attach to a spehere in order for a graph to become embeddable is called the genus of the graph, see graph embedding on Wikipedia, which offers other useful information.

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