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Totally odd immersions of complete graphs in graph products

Combinatorics 2025-11-24 v4

Abstract

For a graph GG, let im(G)im(G) denote the maximum integer tt such that GG contains KtK_t as an immersion. A recent paper of Collins, Heenehan, and McDonald (2023) studied the behaviour of this parameter under graph products, asking how large can im(GH)im(G\ast H) be in terms of im(G)im(G) and im(H)im(H), when \ast is one of the four standard graph products. We consider a similar question for the parameter toi(G)toi(G) which denotes the maximum integer tt such that GG contains KtK_t as a totally odd immersion. As an application, we obtain that no minimum counterexample to the immersion-analogue of the Odd Hadwiger Conjecture can be obtained from the Cartesian, direct (tensor), lexicographic or strong product of graphs.

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@article{arxiv.2502.10227,
  title  = {Totally odd immersions of complete graphs in graph products},
  author = {Henry Echeverría and Andrea Jiménez and Suchismita Mishra and Daniel A. Quiroz and Mauricio Yépez},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2502.10227},
  year   = {2025}
}