Rectilinear crossing number of the double circular complete bipartite graph

Abstract: In this work, we study a mathematically rigorous metric of a graph visualization quality under conditions that relate to visualizing a bipartite graph. Namely we study rectilinear crossing number in a special arrangement of the complete bipartite graph where the two parts are placed on two concentric circles. For this purpose, we introduce a combinatorial formulation to count the number of crossings. We prove a proposition about the rectilinear crossing number of the complete bipartite graph. Then, we introduce a geometric optimization problem whose solution gives the optimum radii ratio in the case that the number of crossings for them is minimized. Later on, we study the magnitude of change in the number of crossings upon change in the radii of the circles. In this part, we present and prove a lemma on bounding the changes in the number of crossings of that is followed by a theorem on asymptotics of the bounds.