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math.CO2026

On Detecting -Induced Minors for Small

Tala Eagling-Vose, Barnaby Martin, Daniël Paulusma +1

We consider the -Induced Minor problem: for a fixed graph~, decide whether a given graph contains as an induced minor. While the problem is known to be NP-complete fo…

math.CO2025

Pathographs and some (un)decidability results

Daniel Carter, Nicolas Trotignon

We introduce pathographs as a framework to study graph classes defined by forbidden structures, including forbidding induced subgraphs, minors, etc. Pathographs approximately gener…

math.CO2025

Every Graph is Essential to Large Treewidth

Bogdan Alecu, Édouard Bonnet, Pedro Bureo Villafana +1

We show that for every graph , there is a hereditary weakly sparse graph class of unbounded treewidth such that the -free (i.e., excluding as an induced su…

math.CO2025

Lollipops, dense cycles and chords

Zdeněk Dvořák, Beatriz Martins, Stéphan Thomassé +1

In 1980, Gupta, Kahn and Robertson proved that every graph with minimum degree at least contains a cycle containing at least vertices each having at least $…

math.CO2024

Treewidth versus clique number: induced minors

Claire Hilaire, Martin Milanič, Nicolas Trotignon +1

We prove that a hereditary class of graphs is -bounded if and only if the induced minors of the graphs from the class form a -bounded class.

math.CO2024

A structural description of Zykov and Blanche Descartes graphs

Malory Marin, Stéphan Thomassé, Nicolas Trotignon +1

In 1949, Zykov proposed the first explicit construction of triangle-free graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic number. We define a Zykov graph as any induced subgraph of a graph…