Treedepth vs circumference
Combinatorics
2023-10-24 v3 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
The circumference of a graph is the length of a longest cycle in , or if has no cycle. Birmel\'e (2003) showed that the treewidth of a graph is at most its circumference minus . We strengthen this result for -connected graphs as follows: If is -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}
}
Comments
v3: Revised following the referees's comments