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Bounding Width on Graph Classes of Constant Diameter

Discrete Mathematics 2025-05-27 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms Combinatorics

Abstract

We determine if the width of a graph class G{\cal G} changes from unbounded to bounded if we consider only those graphs from G{\cal G} whose diameter is bounded. As parameters we consider treedepth, pathwidth, treewidth and clique-width, and as graph classes we consider classes defined by forbidding some specific graph FF as a minor, induced subgraph or subgraph, respectively. Our main focus is on treedepth for FF-subgraph-free graphs of diameter at most~dd for some fixed integer dd. We give classifications of boundedness of treedepth for d{4,5,}d\in \{4,5,\ldots\} and partial classifications for d=2d=2 and d=3d=3.

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@article{arxiv.2505.19926,
  title  = {Bounding Width on Graph Classes of Constant Diameter},
  author = {Konrad K. Dabrowski and Tala Eagling-Vose and Noleen Köhler and Sebastian Ordyniak and Daniël Paulusma},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2505.19926},
  year   = {2025}
}
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