thrackle
English
Etymology
Scots term for a fouled fishing line, which Conway heard when visiting Scotland.
Noun
thrackle (plural thrackles)
- (graph theory) An embedding of a graph in the plane, such that each edge is a Jordan arc and every pair of edges meet once.
- 2016, Grace Misereh, Yuri Nikolayevsky, “Thrackles containing a standard musquash”, in arXiv:
- We prove that a thrackle drawing containing a standard musquash (standard n-gonal thrackle) cannot contain any other cycle of length three or five.
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References
- Dan Archdeacon, thrackle. http://www.cems.uvm.edu/TopologicalGraphTheoryProblems/thrackle.htm