Induced subgraphs and tree decompositions XVII. Anticomplete sets of large treewidth
Combinatorics
2025-11-25 v2
Abstract
Two sets of vertices in a graph are "anticomplete" if and there is no edge in with an end in and an end in . We prove that every graph of sufficiently large treewidth contains two anticomplete sets of vertices each inducing a subgraph of large treewidth unless contains, as an induced subgraph, a highly structured graph of large treewidth that is an obvious counterexample to this statement. These are: complete graphs, complete bipartite graphs and "interrupted -constellations." The latter is a slightly adjusted version of a well-known construction by Bonamy et al.
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@article{arxiv.2411.11842,
title = {Induced subgraphs and tree decompositions XVII. Anticomplete sets of large treewidth},
author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Sepehr Hajebi and Sophie Spirkl},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2411.11842},
year = {2025}
}
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arXiv admin note: text overlap with arXiv:2410.16495