Topics in Topological Graph Theory (Hardcover)

Preface; Foreword Jonathan L. Gross and Thomas W. Tucker; Introduction Lowell W. Beineke and Robin J. Wilson; 1. Embedding graphs on surfaces Jonathan L. Gross and Thomas W. Tucker; 2. Maximum genus Jianer Chen and Yuanqiu Huang; 3. Distributions of embeddings Jonathan L. Gross; 4. Algorithms and obstructions for embeddings Bojan Mohar; 5. Graph minors: generalizing Kuratowski's theorem R. Bruce Richter; 6. Colouring graphs on surfaces Joan P. Hutchinson; 7. Crossing numbers R. Bruce Richter and G. Salazar; 8. Representing graphs and maps Toma? Pisanski and Arjana ?itnik; 9. Enumerating coverings Jin Ho Kwak and Jaeun Lee; 10. Symmetric maps Jozef ?ira? and Thomas W. Tucker; 11. The genus of a group Thomas W. Tucker; 12. Embeddings and geometries Arthur T. White; 13. Embeddings and designs M. J. Grannell and T. S. Griggs; 14. Infinite graphs and planar maps Mark E. Watkins; 15. Open problems Dan Archdeacon; Notes on contributors; Index of definitions.