Tight bound on treedepth in terms of pathwidth and longest path

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Main Authors: Hatzel, Meike, Joret, Gwenaël, Micek, Piotr, Pilipczuk, Marcin, Ueckerdt, Torsten, Walczak, Bartosz
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author Hatzel, Meike
Joret, Gwenaël
Micek, Piotr
Pilipczuk, Marcin
Ueckerdt, Torsten
Walczak, Bartosz
author_facet Hatzel, Meike
Joret, Gwenaël
Micek, Piotr
Pilipczuk, Marcin
Ueckerdt, Torsten
Walczak, Bartosz
contents We show that every graph with pathwidth strictly less than $a$ that contains no path on $2^b$ vertices as a subgraph has treedepth at most $10ab$. The bound is best possible up to a constant factor.
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spellingShingle Tight bound on treedepth in terms of pathwidth and longest path
Hatzel, Meike
Joret, Gwenaël
Micek, Piotr
Pilipczuk, Marcin
Ueckerdt, Torsten
Walczak, Bartosz
Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
We show that every graph with pathwidth strictly less than $a$ that contains no path on $2^b$ vertices as a subgraph has treedepth at most $10ab$. The bound is best possible up to a constant factor.
title Tight bound on treedepth in terms of pathwidth and longest path
topic Combinatorics
Discrete Mathematics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.02995