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Tree independence number III. Thetas, prisms and stars

Combinatorics 2025-12-11 v5

Abstract

We prove that for every tNt\in \mathbb{N}, there exists τ=τ(t)N\tau=\tau(t)\in \mathbb{N} such that every (theta, prism, K1,tK_{1,t})-free graph has tree independence number at most τ\tau (where we allow "prisms" to have one path of length zero).

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@article{arxiv.2406.13053,
  title  = {Tree independence number III. Thetas, prisms and stars},
  author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Sepehr Hajebi and Nicolas Trotignon},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.13053},
  year   = {2025}
}