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Separation Number and Treewidth, Revisited

Combinatorics 2025-03-24 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Authors: Hussein Houdrouge , Babak Miraftab , Pat Morin
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Abstract

We give a constructive proof of the fact that the treewidth of a graph GG is bounded by a linear function of the separation number of GG.

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spanning trees phylogenetic trees trees

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@article{arxiv.2503.17112,
  title  = {Separation Number and Treewidth, Revisited},
  author = {Hussein Houdrouge and Babak Miraftab and Pat Morin},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2503.17112},
  year   = {2025}
}

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