Twin-width can be exponential in treewidth
Combinatorics
2022-04-19 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
For any small positive real and integer , we build a graph with a vertex deletion set of size to a tree, and twin-width greater than . In particular, this shows that the twin-width is sometimes exponential in the treewidth, in the so-called oriented twin-width and grid number, and that adding an apex may multiply the twin-width by at least . Except for the one in oriented twin-width, these lower bounds are essentially tight.
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@article{arxiv.2204.07670,
title = {Twin-width can be exponential in treewidth},
author = {Édouard Bonnet and Hugues Déprés},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2204.07670},
year = {2022}
}
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11 pages, 2 figures