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Treewidth is a graph parameter that plays a fundamental role in several structural and algorithmic results. We study the problem of decomposing a given graph $G$ into node-disjoint subgraphs, where each subgraph has sufficiently large…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-04-08 Chandra Chekuri , Julia Chuzhoy

We prove that, for each circle graph $H$, every graph with sufficiently large rank-width contains a vertex-minor isomorphic to $H$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-18 Jim Geelen , O-Joung Kwon , Rose McCarty , Paul Wollan

We present a canonical way to decompose finite graphs into highly connected local parts. The decomposition depends only on an integer parameter whose choice sets the intended degree of locality. The global structure of the graph, as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-01 Reinhard Diestel , Raphael W. Jacobs , Paul Knappe , Jan Kurkofka

We prove that the edge-end space of an infinite graph is metrizable if and only if it is first-countable. This strengthens a recent result by Aurichi, Magalhaes Jr.\ and Real (2024). Our central graph-theoretic tool is the use of tree-cut…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Max Pitz

The Pathwidth Theorem states that if a class of graphs has unbounded pathwidth, then it contains all trees as graph minors. We prove a similar result for dense graphs. More precisely, we give a finite family of tree-like patterns and prove…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2026-04-09 Mikołaj Bojańczyk , Pierre Ohlmann

We prove that if a graph has a tree-decomposition of width at most w, then it has a tree-decomposition of width at most w with certain desirable properties. We will use this result in a subsequent paper to show that every 2-connected graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Thanh N. Dang , Robin Thomas

In this paper it is shown that for any network there is a uniquely determined network based on a structure tree that provides a convenient way of determining a minimal cut separating a pair $s, t$ where each of $s, t$ is either a vertex or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-05 M. J. Dunwoody

In an early work from 1896, Maschke established the complete list of all finite planar Cayley graphs. This result initiated a long line of research over the next century, aiming at characterizing in a similar way all planar infinite Cayley…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-01 Ugo Giocanti

We generalise structure tree theory, which is based on removing finitely many edges, to removing finitely many vertices. This gives a significant generalization of Tutte's tree decomposition of 2-connected graphs into 3-connected blocks.…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2015-01-05 M. J. Dunwoody , B. Krön

We extend to infinite graphs the matroidal characterization of finite graph duality, that two graphs are dual iff they have complementary spanning trees in some common edge set. The naive infinite analogue of this fails. The key in an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-08 Reinhard Diestel , Julian Pott

A graph is chordal if it contains no induced cycle of length four or more. While finite chordal graphs are precisely those admitting tree-decompositions into cliques, this fails for infinite graphs. We establish two results extending the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Max Pitz , Lucas Real , Roman Schaut

We give a common matroidal generalisation of `A Cantor-Bernstein theorem for paths in graphs' by Diestel and Thomassen and `A Cantor-Bernstein-type theorem for spanning trees in infinite graphs' by ourselves.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-10 Attila Joó

Let $P$ be a graph with a vertex $v$ such that $P\backslash v$ is a forest, and let $Q$ be an outerplanar graph. We prove that there exists a number $p=p(P,Q)$ such that every 2-connected graph of path-width at least $p$ has a minor…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-17 Thanh N. Dang , Robin Thomas

We show that every connected graph $G$ has a tree decomposition indexed by a tree $T$ such that $T$ is a subgraph of $G$ and the width of the tree decomposition is bounded from above by a function of the pathwidth of $G$. This answers a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Romain Bourneuf , Gwenaël Joret , Piotr Micek , Martin Milanič , Michał Pilipczuk

End-spaces of infinite graphs naturally generalise the Freudenthal boundary and sit at the interface between graph theory, geometric group theory and topology. Our main result is that every end-space can topologically be represented by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-02 Jan Kurkofka , Max Pitz

Tangle-tree theorems are an important tool in structural graph theory, and abstract separation systems are a very general setting in which tangle-tree theorems can still be formulated and proven. For infinite abstract separation systems, so…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-14 Ann-Kathrin Elm , Hendrik Heine

The canonical tree-decomposition theorem, given by Robertson and Seymour in their seminal graph minors series, turns out to be one of the most important tool in structural and algorithmic graph theory. In this paper, we provide the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-09-29 Archontia C. Giannopoulou , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Stephan Kreutzer , O-joung Kwon

We provide a finite equational presentation of graphs of treewidth at most three, solving an instanceof an open problem by Courcelle and Engelfriet. We use a syntax generalising series-parallel expressions, denoting graphs with a small…

Logic in Computer Science · Computer Science 2025-01-23 Amina Doumane , Samuel Humeau , Damien Pous

We consider infinite connected quasi-transitive locally finite graphs and show that every such graph with more than one end is a tree amalgamation of two other such graphs. This can be seen as a graph-theoretical version of Stallings'…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-19 Matthias Hamann , Florian Lehner , Babak Miraftab , Tim Rühmann

In this paper, we show that every $O(m)$-edge-connected simple graph $G$ of size divisible by $m$ with minimum degree at least $2^{O(m)}$ has an edge-decomposition into isomorphic copies of any given tree $T$ of size $m$. Moreover, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Morteza Hasanvand