English

Tangles, trees, and flowers

Combinatorics 2011-09-07 v1

Abstract

A tangle of order kk in a matroid or graph may be thought of as a "kk-connected component". For a tangle of order kk in a matroid or graph that satisfies a certain robustness condition, we describe a tree decomposition of the matroid or graph that displays, up to a certain natural equivalence, all of the kk-separations of the matroid or graph that are non-trivial with respect to the tangle.

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@article{arxiv.1109.1048,
  title  = {Tangles, trees, and flowers},
  author = {Ben Clark and Geoff Whittle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1109.1048},
  year   = {2011}
}

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31 pages, 1 figure

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