Treewidth of the $n \times n$ toroidal grid
Combinatorics
2026-05-21 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms
Abstract
In this paper, we show that the treewidth of the toroidal grid is for all . This closes the gap between the previously known upper bound of (Ellis and Warren, DAM 2008) and the lower bound of (Kiyomi, Okamoto, and Otachi, DAM 2016). To establish the matching lower bound, we construct a bramble of maximum order by utilizing maximum components obtained after removing vertices. Our construction relies on the vertex-isoperimetric properties of the infinite grid to establish tight lower bounds on neighborhood sizes, combined with a careful analysis of balls of radius and their boundaries to overcome structural obstructions when is even.
Cite
@article{arxiv.2605.21015,
title = {Treewidth of the $n \times n$ toroidal grid},
author = {Tatsuya Gima and Hiraku Morimoto and Yuto Okada and Yota Otachi},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.21015},
year = {2026}
}
Comments
14 pages, 7 figures