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Strongly sublinear separators and polynomial expansion

Combinatorics 2015-04-21 v1

Abstract

A result of Plotkin, Rao, and Smith implies that graphs with polynomial expansion have strongly sublinear separators. We prove a converse of this result showing that hereditary classes of graphs with strongly sublinear separators have polynomial expansion. This confirms a conjecture of the first author.

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@article{arxiv.1504.04821,
  title  = {Strongly sublinear separators and polynomial expansion},
  author = {Zdenek Dvorak and Sergey Norin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1504.04821},
  year   = {2015}
}

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9 pages, no figures

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