Geometric RAC Simultaneous Drawings of Graphs

In this paper, we study the geometric RAC simultaneous drawing problem: Given two planar graphs that share a common vertex set but have disjoint edge sets, a geometric RAC simultaneous drawing is a straight-line drawing in which (i) each graph is drawn planar, (ii) there are no edge overlaps, and, (iii) crossings between edges of the two graphs occur at right-angles. We first prove that two planar graphs admitting a geometric simultaneous drawing may not admit a geometric RAC simultaneous drawing. We further show that a cycle and a matching always admit a geometric RAC simultaneous drawing, which can be constructed in linear time.

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