English

Graphs that are minor minimal with respect to dimension

Combinatorics 2021-06-11 v1

Abstract

Erd\H{o}s, Harary, and Tutte defined the dimension of a graph GG as the smallest natural number nn such that GG can be embedded in Rn\mathbb{R}^n with each edge a straight line segment of length 1. Since the proposal of this definition, little has been published on how to compute the exact dimension of graphs and almost nothing has been published on graphs that are minor minimal with respect to dimension. This paper develops both of these areas. In particular, it (1) establishes certain conditions under which computing the dimension of graph sums is easy and (2) constructs three infinitely-large classes of graphs that are minor minimal with respect to their dimension.

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@article{arxiv.2106.05930,
  title  = {Graphs that are minor minimal with respect to dimension},
  author = {Thomas Giardina and Joel Foisy},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2106.05930},
  year   = {2021}
}

Comments

26 pages, 9 figures

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