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).