On treewidth and maximum cliques

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Main Authors: Chudnovsky, Maria, Trotignon, Nicolas
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author Chudnovsky, Maria
Trotignon, Nicolas
author_facet Chudnovsky, Maria
Trotignon, Nicolas
contents 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 number, the construction can be adjusted to make the dependance grow arbitrarily. Some of these classes provide counter-examples to several conjectures. In particular, the construction includes hereditary classes of graphs whose treewidth is bounded by a function of the clique number while the tree-independence number is unbounded, thus disproving a conjecture of Dallard, Milanič and Štorgel [Treewidth versus clique number. II. Tree-independence number. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 164:404-442, 2024.]. The construction can be further adjusted to provide, for any fixed integer $c$, graphs of arbitrarily large treewidth that contain no $K_c$-free graphs of high treewidth, thus disproving a conjecture of Hajebi [Chordal graphs, even-hole-free graphs and sparse obstructions to bounded treewidth, arXiv:2401.01299, 2024].
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spellingShingle On treewidth and maximum cliques
Chudnovsky, Maria
Trotignon, Nicolas
Combinatorics
05C75, 05C85, 05C69
G.2.2; F.2.2
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 number, the construction can be adjusted to make the dependance grow arbitrarily. Some of these classes provide counter-examples to several conjectures. In particular, the construction includes hereditary classes of graphs whose treewidth is bounded by a function of the clique number while the tree-independence number is unbounded, thus disproving a conjecture of Dallard, Milanič and Štorgel [Treewidth versus clique number. II. Tree-independence number. Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B, 164:404-442, 2024.]. The construction can be further adjusted to provide, for any fixed integer $c$, graphs of arbitrarily large treewidth that contain no $K_c$-free graphs of high treewidth, thus disproving a conjecture of Hajebi [Chordal graphs, even-hole-free graphs and sparse obstructions to bounded treewidth, arXiv:2401.01299, 2024].
title On treewidth and maximum cliques
topic Combinatorics
05C75, 05C85, 05C69
G.2.2; F.2.2
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.07471