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Graphs of scramble number two

Combinatorics 2022-12-21 v1 Algebraic Geometry

Abstract

The scramble number of a graph provides a lower bound for gonality and an upper bound for treewidth, making it a graph invariant of interest. In this paper we study graphs of scramble number at most two, and give a classification of all such graphs with a finite list of forbidden topological minors. We then prove that there exists no finite list of forbidden topological minors to characterize graphs of any fixed scramble number greater than two.

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@article{arxiv.2212.09949,
  title  = {Graphs of scramble number two},
  author = {Robin Eagleton and Ralph Morrison},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2212.09949},
  year   = {2022}
}

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14 pages, 15 figures

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