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Tight bounds for divisible subdivisions

Combinatorics 2021-11-11 v1

Abstract

Alon and Krivelevich proved that for every nn-vertex subcubic graph HH and every integer q2q \ge 2 there exists a (smallest) integer f=f(H,q)f=f(H,q) such that every KfK_f-minor contains a subdivision of HH in which the length of every subdivision-path is divisible by qq. Improving their superexponential bound, we show that f(H,q)212qn+8n+14qf(H,q) \le \frac{21}{2}qn+8n+14q, which is optimal up to a constant multiplicative factor.

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@article{arxiv.2111.05723,
  title  = {Tight bounds for divisible subdivisions},
  author = {Shagnik Das and Nemanja Draganić and Raphael Steiner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2111.05723},
  year   = {2021}
}

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13 pages

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