Outerplanar Crossing Numbers of 3-Row Meshes, Halin Graphs and Complete p-Partite Graphs

An outerplanar (also called circular, convex, one-page) drawing of an n-vertex graph G is a drawing in which the vertices are placed on a circle and each edge is drawn using one straight-line segment. We derive exact results for the minimal number of crossings in any outerplanar drawings of the following classes of graphs: 3-row meshes, Halin graphs and complete p–partite graphs with equal size partite sets.