David Eppstein – Publications

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Visualizing treewidth.
A. Chiu, T. Depian, D. Eppstein, M. T. Goodrich, and M. Nöllenburg.
arXiv:2508.19935.
33rd International Symposium on Graph Drawing and Network Visualization.
Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs) 357, 2025, pp. 17:1–17:20, doi:10.4230/LIPIcs.GD.2025.17.
J. Graph Algorithms & Applications, to appear.

We experiment with metro-map style visualizations of tree decompositions of graphs. Here, the bags of a tree decomposition are visualized as stations on a metro system, and the vertices of a graph are visualized as metro lines passing through certain stations. Within each bag we display a drawing of the induced subgraph of the bag.

Hamiltonian cycles in subdivided doubles.
D. Eppstein.
arXiv:2510.18359.
Ars Mathematica Contemporanea, to appear.

The subdivided double construction turns a 4-regular graph into a bigger 4-regular graph, by subdividing each edge and doubling each vertex. We prove that the resulting graphs, which include the Folkman graph, have the following curious property: every Hamiltonian cycle (of which there are exponentially many) is complementary to another Hamiltonian cycle.

On the expansion of Hanoi graphs.
D. Eppstein, D. Frishberg, and W. Maxwell.
arXiv:2510.18010
Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science, to appear.

In a previous paper, "On the treewidth of Hanoi graphs", we showed that \(n\)-disc \(p\)-peg Hanoi graphs have treewidth within a polynomial factor of \(n^{p-1}\). Here we consider expansion instead, and prove that both it and the treewidth are \(\Theta(n^{p-1})\).