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The monotone crossing number of G is defined as the smallest number of crossing points in a drawing of G in the plane, where every edge is represented by an x-monotone curve, that is, by a connected continuous arc with the property that every vertical line intersects it in at most one point. It is shown that this parameter can be strictly larger than the classical crossing number cr(G), but it is bounded from above by 2cr 2(G). This is in sharp contrast with the behavior of the rectilinear crossing number, which cannot be bounded from above by any function of cr(G).
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Pach, J., Tóth, G. (2012). Monotone Crossing Number. In: van Kreveld, M., Speckmann, B. (eds) Graph Drawing. GD 2011. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7034. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-25878-7_27
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