I'm working on my thesis dealing with pathfinding over Delaunay triangulations. I have an algorithm that has running time in time proportional to the degree of a vertex. Are there any properties or upper bounds on the degree of vertices in a Delaunay (or Constrained Delaunay) triangulation?
Properties about verticies in Delaunay Triangulations
graph theory;graph algorithms;delaunay triangulation
(In 2-space,) a Delaunay triangulation is a planar graph. All planar graphs have average degree at most 6. So, many (all?) operations that depend on vertex degree of a Delaunay triangulation will run in $O(1)$ expected time.