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Main Authors: Nguyen, Tung, Scott, Alex, Seymour, Paul
Format: Preprint
Published: 2025
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Online Access:https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09839
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author Nguyen, Tung
Scott, Alex
Seymour, Paul
author_facet Nguyen, Tung
Scott, Alex
Seymour, Paul
contents In this paper, we develop a coarse analogue of treewidth. We prove that a graph $G$ admits a tree-decomposition in which each bag is contained in the union of a bounded number of balls of bounded radius, if and only if $G$ admits a quasi-isometry to a graph with bounded tree-width. (The ``if'' half is easy, but the ``only if'' half is challenging.) This generalizes a recent result of Berger and Seymour, concerning tree-decompositions when each bag has bounded radius.
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spellingShingle Asymptotic structure. I. Coarse tree-width
Nguyen, Tung
Scott, Alex
Seymour, Paul
Combinatorics
In this paper, we develop a coarse analogue of treewidth. We prove that a graph $G$ admits a tree-decomposition in which each bag is contained in the union of a bounded number of balls of bounded radius, if and only if $G$ admits a quasi-isometry to a graph with bounded tree-width. (The ``if'' half is easy, but the ``only if'' half is challenging.) This generalizes a recent result of Berger and Seymour, concerning tree-decompositions when each bag has bounded radius.
title Asymptotic structure. I. Coarse tree-width
topic Combinatorics
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2501.09839