Face distributions of embeddings of complete graphs

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A longstanding open question of Archdeacon and Craft asks whether every complete graph
has a minimum genus embedding with at most one nontriangular face. We exhibit such an
embedding for each complete graph except for K 8, and we go on to prove that no such
embedding can exist for this graph. Our approach also solves a more general problem,
giving a complete characterization of the possible face distributions (ie, the numbers of faces
of each length) realizable by minimum genus embeddings of each complete graph. We also …
Abstract
A longstanding open question of Archdeacon and Craft asks whether every complete graph has a minimum genus embedding with at most one nontriangular face. We exhibit such an embedding for each complete graph except for , and we go on to prove that no such embedding can exist for this graph. Our approach also solves a more general problem, giving a complete characterization of the possible face distributions (i.e., the numbers of faces of each length) realizable by minimum genus embeddings of each complete graph. We also tackle analogous questions for nonorientable and maximum genus embeddings.
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