Consider the plane figure obtained by drawing each diagonal in a regular polygon with vertices. If each point of intersection is associated with a node and diagonals are split ar each intersection to form segments associated with edges, the resulting figure is a planar graph here termed the polygon diagonal intersection graph and denoted .
For , 2, ..., the vertex counts of are 1, 2, 3, 5, 10, 19, 42, 57, 135, 171, ... (OEIS A007569), which are given by a finite sum of
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times polynomials in with , 4, 6, 12, 18, 24, 30, 42, 60, 84, 90, 120, and 210 (Poonen and Rubinstein 1998).
For , 2, ..., the edge counts of are 0, 1, 3, 8, 20, 42, 91, 136, 288, ... (OEIS A135565), which are again given by a finite sum of polynomials times .
Similarly, for , 2, ..., the numbers of regions into which the polygon is divided are given by 1, 4, 11, 24, 50, 80, 154, 220, 375, ... (OEIS A007678), where the th term is given in closed form by
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For odd, all terms but the first drop out, so the numbers of regions are given by
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Precomputed properties of polygonal diagonal intersection graphs are implemented in the Wolfram Language as GraphData["DiagonalIntersection", n].