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On Andreae's Ubiquity Conjecture

Combinatorics 2022-10-11 v2

Abstract

A graph HH is ubiquitous if for every graph GG that for every natural number nn contains nn vertex-disjoint HH-minors contains infinitely many vertex-disjoint HH-minors. Andreae conjectured that every locally finite graph is ubiquitous. We give a disconnected counterexample to this conjecture. It remains open whether every connected locally finite graph is ubiquitous.

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@article{arxiv.2210.02711,
  title  = {On Andreae's Ubiquity Conjecture},
  author = {Johannes Carmesin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2210.02711},
  year   = {2022}
}
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