How Not to Characterize Planar-emulable Graphs

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Authors

HLINĚNÝ Petr DERKA Martin CHIMANI Markus KLUSÁČEK Matěj

Year of publication 2013
Type Article in Periodical
Magazine / Source Advances in Applied Mathematics
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Faculty of Informatics

Citation
Doi http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.aam.2012.06.004
Field General mathematics
Keywords Projective-planar graph; Planar emulator; Planar cover; Graph minor
Description We investigate the question of which graphs have planar emulators (a locally-surjective homomorphism from some finite planar graph) - a problem raised already in Fellows thesis (1985) and conceptually related to the better known planar cover conjecture by Negami (1986). For over two decades, the planar emulator problem lived poorly in a shadow of Negamis conjecture - which is still open - as the two were considered equivalent. But, at the end of 2008, a surprising construction by Rieck and Yamashita falsified the natural planar emulator conjecture, and thus opened a whole new research field. We present further results and constructions which show how far the planar-emulability concept is from planar-coverability, and that the traditional idea of likening it to projective embeddability is actually very out-of-place. We also present several positive partial characterizations of planar-emulable graphs.
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