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20242026
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9 papers

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

Tree independence number III. Thetas, prisms and stars

Maria Chudnovsky, Sepehr Hajebi, Nicolas Trotignon

We prove that for every , there exists such that every (theta, prism, )-free graph has tree independence number at most (whe…

cs.DM2025

On the structure of (, , )-free graphs

Chính T. Hoà ng, Ramin Javadi, Nicolas Trotignon

Determining the complexity of colouring ()-free graph is a long open problem. Recently Penev showed that there is a polynomial-time algorithm to colour a ($4K_1, C_4, C_…

math.CO2025

On treewidth and maximum cliques

Maria Chudnovsky, Nicolas Trotignon

We construct classes of graphs that are variants of the so-called layered wheel. One of their key properties is that while the treewidth is bounded by a function of the clique numb…

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.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…