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Closure Under Minors of Undirected Entanglement

Discrete Mathematics 2009-04-13 v1 Computer Science and Game Theory

Abstract

Entanglement is a digraph complexity measure that origins in fixed-point theory. Its purpose is to count the nested depth of cycles in digraphs. In this paper we prove that the class of undirected graphs of entanglement at most kk, for arbitrary fixed kNk \in \mathbb{N}, is closed under taking minors. Our proof relies on the game theoretic characterization of entanglement in terms of Robber and Cops games.

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@article{arxiv.0904.1703,
  title  = {Closure Under Minors of Undirected Entanglement},
  author = {Walid Belkhir},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0904.1703},
  year   = {2009}
}