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Minor-closed graph classes with bounded layered pathwidth

Combinatorics 2020-08-03 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We prove that a minor-closed class of graphs has bounded layered pathwidth if and only if some apex-forest is not in the class. This generalises a theorem of Robertson and Seymour, which says that a minor-closed class of graphs has bounded pathwidth if and only if some forest is not in the class.

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@article{arxiv.1810.08314,
  title  = {Minor-closed graph classes with bounded layered pathwidth},
  author = {Vida Dujmović and David Eppstein and Gwenaël Joret and Pat Morin and David R. Wood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1810.08314},
  year   = {2020}
}