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Treedepth vs circumference

Combinatorics 2023-10-24 v3 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The circumference of a graph GG is the length of a longest cycle in GG, or ++\infty if GG has no cycle. Birmel\'e (2003) showed that the treewidth of a graph GG is at most its circumference minus 11. We strengthen this result for 22-connected graphs as follows: If GG is 22-connected, then its treedepth is at most its circumference. The bound is best possible and improves on an earlier quadratic upper bound due to Marshall and Wood (2015).

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@article{arxiv.2211.11410,
  title  = {Treedepth vs circumference},
  author = {Marcin Briański and Gwenaël Joret and Konrad Majewski and Piotr Micek and Michał T. Seweryn and Roohani Sharma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2211.11410},
  year   = {2023}
}

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v3: Revised following the referees's comments

R2 v1 2026-06-28T06:21:57.230Z