English

Fat minors cannot be thinned (by quasi-isometries)

Combinatorics 2024-05-16 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We disprove the conjecture of Georgakopoulos and Papasoglu that a length space (or graph) with no KK-fat HH minor is quasi-isometric to a graph with no HH minor. Our counterexample is furthermore not quasi-isometric to a graph with no 2-fat HH minor or a length space with no HH minor. On the other hand, we show that the following weakening holds: any graph with no KK-fat HH minor is quasi-isometric to a graph with no 33-fat HH minor.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2405.09383,
  title  = {Fat minors cannot be thinned (by quasi-isometries)},
  author = {James Davies and Robert Hickingbotham and Freddie Illingworth and Rose McCarty},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.09383},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

14 pages, 5 figures

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