The geometric thickness of K14 is 4

No straight-line drawing of K14 has its edges split into three crossing-free layers, so the geometric thickness of K14 is 4. Together with the upper bound of Dillencourt, Eppstein and Hirschberg this completes the values of the geometric thickness of Kn for n ≤ 16. The lower bound is a SAT computation over signotopes with a hull-size case split and an Euler-type edge bound; two independently written encoders give UNSAT, and every leaf LRAT proof was checked with cake_lpr. Code, case trees and a one-command checker: https://github.com/LeeMarshall1113/ai-math-results (results/thickness-k14).

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Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Published
2026-10-31
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https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23842785
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Advanced Graph Theory Research
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The geometric thickness of K14 is 4

Lee Marshall
Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Advanced Graph Theory Research
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The geometric thickness of K14 is 4

Lee Marshall
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Abstract

No straight-line drawing of K14 has its edges split into three crossing-free layers, so the geometric thickness of K14 is 4. Together with the upper bound of Dillencourt, Eppstein and Hirschberg this completes the values of the geometric thickness of Kn for n ≤ 16. The lower bound is a SAT computation over signotopes with a hull-size case split and an Euler-type edge bound; two independently written encoders give UNSAT, and every leaf LRAT proof was checked with cake_lpr. Code, case trees and a one-command checker: https://github.com/LeeMarshall1113/ai-math-results (results/thickness-k14).

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
Advanced Graph Theory Research
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