An embedding, also called an "
drawing," is a three-dimensional
embedding such that every axis-parallel line contains either zero or two vertices.
Such an embedding is a vertex set of a cubic graph
in which two vertices are adjacent if and only if two of their three coordinates
are equal and each vertex
is connected to the three other points that lie on the three axis-parallel lines
through
(Eppstein 2008).
A planar graph is an
graph (and hence possesses an
embedding) if and only if
is bipartite, cubic,
and 3-connected (Eppstein 2008).
For any ,
points can be embedded on an
grid at the points
satisfying
, 1 (mod
) producing an
embedding of a cubic
symmetric graph for each
(Eppstein 2007a). The following table summarizes the
resulting graphs for small
.
graph | |
2 | cubical graph |
3 | Pappus graph |
4 | Dyck graph |
5 | Foster graph 050A |
6 | Foster graph 072A |
7 | Foster graph 098B |
8 | Foster graph 128A |
9 | Foster graph 162A |
10 | Foster graph 200A |
11 | Foster graph 242A |
12 | Foster graph 288A |
13 | Foster graph 338B |
14 | Foster graph 392B |
15 | Foster graph 450A |
16 | Foster graph 512A |
17 | Foster graph 578A |
18 | Foster graph 648A |
19 | Foster graph 722B |
20 | Foster graph 800A |
21 | Foster graph 882B |
22 | Foster graph 968A |
However, there also exist embeddings for additional graphs not in this list, including
,
(the Nauru graph),
,
, and
(Eppstein 2007b).