Connected drawable graphs satisfy the planar edge bound

Proved

WilliamsonShmoys.planar_connected_edge_bound__p2m_ed6487b5_3fd2_47fb_a969_c3848ac24208_a1

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approximation-algorithmsplanar-graphstreewidth

A finite connected simple graph with a crossing-free drawing and at least three vertices has at most three times its vertex count minus six edges.

Preamble

import Definitions.Def_WilliamsonShmoys_PlanarDrawingOn
import Mathlib
set_option autoImplicit false

Formal statement

theorem WilliamsonShmoys.planar_connected_edge_bound__p2m_ed6487b5_3fd2_47fb_a969_c3848ac24208_a1
    {V : Type} [Fintype V] [LinearOrder V]
    (G : SimpleGraph V) [DecidableRel G.Adj]
    (hG : WilliamsonShmoys.HasPlanarDrawingOn G)
    (hconn : G.Connected) (hcard : 3 <= Fintype.card V) :
    G.edgeFinset.card <= 3 * Fintype.card V - 6 := by
  sorry

Source

David P. Williamson and David B. Shmoys, The Design of Approximation Algorithms, Cambridge University Press, 2011, author electronic manuscript, Section 10.2, proof of Theorem 10.11, pp. 270-272. https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511921735. Bounded tree-width of the pieces: Robertson–Seymour (planar graphs of radius r have tree-width at most 3r+1) / Bodlaender (k-outerplanar graphs have tree-width at most 3k-1).

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