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Odd Hadwiger number and graph products

Combinatorics 2026-03-31 v1

Abstract

The Odd Hadwiger number of a graph GG is the largest integer rr such that GG has a clique of size rr as an odd minor. In this paper, we investigate how large is the Odd Hadwiger number of the product of two graphs, when considering any of the four standard graph products: Cartesian, direct, lexicographic, strong. We provide an optimal lower bound in the cases of the strong and lexicographic products.

Cite

@article{arxiv.2603.28748,
  title  = {Odd Hadwiger number and graph products},
  author = {Henry Echeverría and Andrea Jiménez and Suchismita Mishra and Daniel A. Quiroz and Mauricio Yépez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2603.28748},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

12 pages, 6 figures, 2 tables

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