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Induced subdivisions and bounded expansion

Combinatorics 2017-06-20 v1

Abstract

We prove that for every graph H and for every integer s, the class of graphs that do not contain K_s, K_{s,s}, or any subdivision of H as an induced subgraph has bounded expansion; this strengthens a result of Kuhn and Osthus. The argument also gives another characterization of graph classes with bounded expansion and of nowhere-dense graph classes.

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@article{arxiv.1706.05766,
  title  = {Induced subdivisions and bounded expansion},
  author = {Zdeněk Dvořák},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1706.05766},
  year   = {2017}
}

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8 pages, no figures

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