Twin-width of subdivisions of multigraphs
Combinatorics
2025-08-15 v2 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
For each , we construct a finite set of multigraphs such that for each graph of girth at least obtained from a multigraph by subdividing each edge at least two times, has twin-width at most if and only if has no minor in . This answers a question of Berg\'{e}, Bonnet, and D\'{e}pr\'{e}s asking for the structure of graphs such that each long subdivision of has twin-width . As a corollary, we show that the grid has twin-width , which answers a question of Schidler and Szeider.
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@article{arxiv.2306.05334,
title = {Twin-width of subdivisions of multigraphs},
author = {Jungho Ahn and Debsoumya Chakraborti and Kevin Hendrey and Sang-il Oum},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.05334},
year = {2025}
}
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46 pages, 8 figures, 1 table