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We present a new model for hybrid planarity that relaxes existing hybrid representations. A graph \(G = (V,E)\) is (k, p)-planar if V can be partitioned into clusters of size at most k such that G admits a drawing where: (i) each cluster is associated with a closed, bounded planar region, called a cluster region; (ii) cluster regions are pairwise disjoint, (iii) each vertex \(v \in V\) is identified with at most p distinct points, called ports, on the boundary of its cluster region; (iv) each inter-cluster edge \((u,v) \in E\) is identified with a Jordan arc connecting a port of u to a port of v; (v) inter-cluster edges do not cross or intersect cluster regions except at their endpoints. We first tightly bound the number of edges in a (k, p)-planar graph with \(p<k\). We then prove that (4, 1)-planarity testing and (2, 2)-planarity testing are NP-complete problems. Finally, we prove that neither the class of (2, 2)-planar graphs nor the class of 1-planar graphs contains the other, indicating that the (k, p)-planar graphs are a large and novel class.
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Di Giacomo, E., Lenhart, W.J., Liotta, G., Randolph, T.W., Tappini, A. (2019). (k, p)-Planarity: A Relaxation of Hybrid Planarity. In: Das, G., Mandal, P., Mukhopadhyaya, K., Nakano, Si. (eds) WALCOM: Algorithms and Computation. WALCOM 2019. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 11355. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-10564-8_12
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