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Induced minors and subpolynomial treewidth

Combinatorics 2026-03-20 v3

Abstract

Given a family H\mathcal{H} of graphs, we say that a graph GG is H\mathcal{H}-induced-minor-free if no induced minor of GG is isomorphic to a member of H\mathcal{H}, We denote by Wt×tW_{t\times t} the tt-by-tt hexagonal grid, and by Kt,tK_{t,t} the complete bipartite graph with both sides of the bipartition of size tt. We show that the class of {Kt,t,Wt×t}\{K_{t,t},W_{t\times t}\}-induced minor-free graphs with bounded clique number has subpolynomial treewidth. Specifically, we prove that for every integer tt there exist ϵ(0,1]\epsilon \in (0,1] and cNc \in \mathbb{N} such that every nn-vertex {Kt,t,Wt×t}\{K_{t,t},W_{t\times t}\}-induced minor-free graph with no clique of size tt has treewidth at most 2clog1ϵn2^{c\log^{1-\epsilon}n}.

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@article{arxiv.2512.18835,
  title  = {Induced minors and subpolynomial treewidth},
  author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Julien Codsi and David Fischer and Daniel Lokshtanov},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2512.18835},
  year   = {2026}
}

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Updated introduction

R2 v1 2026-07-01T08:35:43.267Z