Harary–Hill conjecture for the crossing number of complete graphs

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Let KnK_n be the complete graph on nn vertices, and define

H(n):=14n2n12n22n32.H(n):=\frac{1}{4}\left\lfloor\frac{n}{2}\right\rfloor\left\lfloor\frac{n-1}{2}\right\rfloor\left\lfloor\frac{n-2}{2}\right\rfloor\left\lfloor\frac{n-3}{2}\right\rfloor.

Here cr(G)\operatorname{cr}(G) denotes the minimum number of crossings in a plane drawing of a graph GG. Harary–Hill conjecture.

cr(Kn)=H(n).\operatorname{cr}(K_n)=H(n).

The formula is achieved by Hill's drawing of KnK_n and is conjectured to be optimal; determining the crossing number of complete graphs remains a central open problem in topological graph theory.

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Primary source

Ruy Fabila-Monroy, Rosna Paul, Jenifer Viafara-Chanchi and Alexandra Weinberger, “On the rectilinear crossing number of complete balanced multipartite graphs and layered graphs”, arXiv:2404.13155 (2025).

Additional references

5 papers in this index state this conjecture (2013–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1907.07796, arXiv:1805.06780, arXiv:1803.07515, arXiv:1307.3297.

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