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math.CO2026

Optimal tree-decompositions with bags of bounded pathwidth

Kevin Hendrey, Robert Hickingbotham, Jędrzej Hodor +1

The paper proves that every planar graph admits an optimal-width tree‑decomposition whose bags induce subgraphs of pathwidth at most three, and extends similar bounded‑pathwidth ba…

math.CO2026

The grid-minor theorem revisited

Vida Dujmović, Robert Hickingbotham, Jędrzej Hodor +6

We prove that for every planar graph of treedepth , there exists a positive integer such that for every -minor-free graph , there exists a graph of treewidth a…

math.CO2026

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

An Induced -Path Theorem

Robert Hickingbotham, Gwenaël Joret

Given a graph and , a classical theorem of Gallai (1964) states that for every positive integer , the graph contains pairwise vertex-disjo…

math.CO2025

Excluding a Forest Induced Minor

Édouard Bonnet, Benjamin Duhamel, Robert Hickingbotham

In the first paper of the Graph Minors series [JCTB '83], Robertson and Seymour proved the Forest Minor theorem: the -minor-free graphs have bounded pathwidth if and only if

math.CO2025

Defective and Clustered Colouring of Graphs with Given Girth

Marcin Briański, Robert Hickingbotham, David R. Wood

The defective chromatic number of a graph class is the minimum integer such that for some integer , every graph in is -colourable such that ea…