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20242026
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9 papers

math.CO2026

The excluded minors for -gainable and regular biased graphs

Nick Brettell, Rutger Campbell, Daryl Funk +1

We prove that a biased graph is gainable over the group if and only if it contains no minor isomorphic to , , or . We develo…

math.CO2025

Blind cop-width and balanced minors of graphs

Hector Buffière, Rutger Campbell, Kevin Hendrey +1

We investigate a pursuit-evasion game on an undirected graph in which a robber, moving at a fixed constant speed, attempts to evade a team of cops who are blind to the robber's loc…

math.CO2025

The excluded minors of the class of spike minors

Sam Bastida, Nick Brettell, Rutger Campbell +4

Mayhew et al.\ (2021) posed the problem of showing that the minor-closed class of spikes and their minors has a finite set of excluded minors and describing all of them. In this pa…

math.CO2025

Turán's theorem for Dowling geometries

Rutger Campbell, Donggyu Kim, Jorn van der Pol

The Dowling geometry , where is a finite group, is a matroid that generalizes the complete-graphic matroid . We determine the maximum size of an -free su…

math.CO2025

Binary matroids and degree-boundedness for pivot-minors

Rutger Campbell, James Davies, Robert Hickingbotham

We prove that for every bipartite graph and positive integer , the class of -subgraph-free graphs excluding as a pivot-minor has bounded average degree. Our pro…

math.CO2025

The Erdős-Pósa property for circle graphs as vertex-minors

Rutger Campbell, J. Pascal Gollin, Meike Hatzel +4

We prove that for any circle graph with at least one edge and for any positive integer , there exists an integer so that every graph either has a vertex-minor…

math.CO2024

Treewidth, Hadwiger Number, and Induced Minors

Rutger Campbell, James Davies, Marc Distel +7

Treewidth and Hadwiger number are two of the most important parameters in structural graph theory. This paper studies graph classes in which large treewidth implies the existence o…

math.CO2024

Clustered Colouring of Graph Products

Rutger Campbell, J. Pascal Gollin, Kevin Hendrey +5

A colouring of a graph has clustering if the maximum number of vertices in a monochromatic component equals . Motivated by recent results showing that many natural graph…

math.CO2024

Optimal bounds for zero-sum cycles. I. Odd order

Rutger Campbell, J. Pascal Gollin, Kevin Hendrey +1

For a finite (not necessarily Abelian) group , let denote the smallest positive integer such that for every labelling of the arcs of the comple…