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A tight Erd\H{o}s-P\'osa function for wheel minors

Discrete Mathematics 2018-10-23 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

Let WtW_t denote the wheel on t+1t+1 vertices. We prove that for every integer t3t \geq 3 there is a constant c=c(t)c=c(t) such that for every integer k1k\geq 1 and every graph GG, either GG has kk vertex-disjoint subgraphs each containing WtW_t as minor, or there is a subset XX of at most cklogkc k \log k vertices such that GXG-X has no WtW_t minor. This is best possible, up to the value of cc. We conjecture that the result remains true more generally if we replace WtW_t with any fixed planar graph HH.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1710.06282,
  title  = {A tight Erd\H{o}s-P\'osa function for wheel minors},
  author = {Pierre Aboulker and Samuel Fiorini and Tony Huynh and Gwenaël Joret and Jean-Florent Raymond and Ignasi Sau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.06282},
  year   = {2018}
}

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15 pages, 1 figure

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