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Separation profiles of hyperbolic planar and apex-minor-free graphs

Combinatorics 2026-07-08 v1 Metric Geometry

Abstract

We show that the separation profile of a hyperbolic planar graph and, more generally, a hyperbolic apex-minor-free graph, grows at most logarithmically, answering a question of Benjamini, Schramm, and Tim\'ar in the affirmative.

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@article{arxiv.2607.07809,
  title  = {Separation profiles of hyperbolic planar and apex-minor-free graphs},
  author = {Joseph P. MacManus and Bobby Miraftab},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2607.07809},
  year   = {2026}
}

Comments

16 pages, 2 figures; comments welcome!