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Low Polynomial Exclusion of Planar Graph Patterns

Combinatorics 2015-11-10 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The celebrated grid exclusion theorem states that for every hh-vertex planar graph HH, there is a constant chc_{h} such that if a graph GG does not contain HH as a minor then GG has treewidth at most chc_{h}. We are looking for patterns of HH where this bound can become a low degree polynomial. We provide such bounds for the following parameterized graphs: the wheel (ch=O(h)c_{h}=O(h)), the double wheel (ch=O(h2log2h)c_{h}=O(h^2\cdot \log^{2} h)), any graph of pathwidth at most 2 (ch=O(h2)c_{h}=O(h^{2})), and the yurt graph (ch=O(h4)c_{h}=O(h^{4})).

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@article{arxiv.1305.7112,
  title  = {Low Polynomial Exclusion of Planar Graph Patterns},
  author = {Jean-Florent Raymond and Dimitrios M. Thilikos},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.7112},
  year   = {2015}
}
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