Avoidability beyond paths

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Autori principali: Gurvich, Vladimir, Krnc, Matjaž, Milanič, Martin, Vyalyi, Mikhail
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author Gurvich, Vladimir
Krnc, Matjaž
Milanič, Martin
Vyalyi, Mikhail
author_facet Gurvich, Vladimir
Krnc, Matjaž
Milanič, Martin
Vyalyi, Mikhail
contents The concept of avoidable paths in graphs was introduced by Beisegel, Chudnovsky, Gurvich, Milanič, and Servatius in 2019 as a common generalization of avoidable vertices and simplicial paths. In 2020, Bonamy, Defrain, Hatzel, and Thiebaut proved that every graph containing an induced path of order $k$ also contains an avoidable induced path of the same order. They also asked whether one could generalize this result to other avoidable structures, leaving the notion of avoidability up to interpretation. In this paper we address this question: we specify the concept of avoidability for arbitrary graphs equipped with two terminal vertices. We provide both positive and negative results, some of which appear to be related to the recent work by Chudnovsky, Norin, Seymour, and Turcotte [arXiv:2301.13175].
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spellingShingle Avoidability beyond paths
Gurvich, Vladimir
Krnc, Matjaž
Milanič, Martin
Vyalyi, Mikhail
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C75, 05C38
The concept of avoidable paths in graphs was introduced by Beisegel, Chudnovsky, Gurvich, Milanič, and Servatius in 2019 as a common generalization of avoidable vertices and simplicial paths. In 2020, Bonamy, Defrain, Hatzel, and Thiebaut proved that every graph containing an induced path of order $k$ also contains an avoidable induced path of the same order. They also asked whether one could generalize this result to other avoidable structures, leaving the notion of avoidability up to interpretation. In this paper we address this question: we specify the concept of avoidability for arbitrary graphs equipped with two terminal vertices. We provide both positive and negative results, some of which appear to be related to the recent work by Chudnovsky, Norin, Seymour, and Turcotte [arXiv:2301.13175].
title Avoidability beyond paths
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
05C75, 05C38
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2208.12803