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Tree-width of hypergraphs and surface duality

Discrete Mathematics 2008-12-17 v1

Abstract

In Graph Minor III, Robertson and Seymour conjecture that the tree-width of a planar graph and that of its dual differ by at most one. We prove that given a hypergraph H on a surface of Euler genus k, the tree-width of H^* is at most the maximum of tw(H) + 1 + k and the maximum size of a hyperedge of H^*.

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@article{arxiv.0812.2990,
  title  = {Tree-width of hypergraphs and surface duality},
  author = {Frédéric Mazoit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0812.2990},
  year   = {2008}
}
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