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Hitting minors, subdivisions, and immersions in tournaments

Discrete Mathematics 2023-06-22 v5

Abstract

The Erd\H{o}s-P\'osa property relates parameters of covering and packing of combinatorial structures and has been mostly studied in the setting of undirected graphs. In this note, we use results of Chudnovsky, Fradkin, Kim, and Seymour to show that, for every directed graph HH (resp. strongly-connected directed graph HH), the class of directed graphs that contain HH as a strong minor (resp. butterfly minor, topological minor) has the vertex-Erd\H{o}s-P\'osa property in the class of tournaments. We also prove that if HH is a strongly-connected directed graph, the class of directed graphs containing HH as an immersion has the edge-Erd\H{o}s-P\'osa property in the class of tournaments.

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@article{arxiv.1605.08366,
  title  = {Hitting minors, subdivisions, and immersions in tournaments},
  author = {Jean-Florent Raymond},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.08366},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

Accepted to Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science. Difference with the previous version: use of the DMTCS article class. For a version with hyperlinks see the previous version