Induced minors and subpolynomial treewidth

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Main Authors: Chudnovsky, Maria, Codsi, Julien, Fischer, David, Lokshtanov, Daniel
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author Chudnovsky, Maria
Codsi, Julien
Fischer, David
Lokshtanov, Daniel
author_facet Chudnovsky, Maria
Codsi, Julien
Fischer, David
Lokshtanov, Daniel
contents Given a family $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs, we say that a graph $G$ is $\mathcal{H}$-induced-minor-free if no induced minor of $G$ is isomorphic to a member of $\mathcal{H}$, We denote by $W_{t\times t}$ the $t$-by-$t$ hexagonal grid, and by $K_{t,t}$ the complete bipartite graph with both sides of the bipartition of size $t$. We show that the class of $\{K_{t,t},W_{t\times t}\}$-induced minor-free graphs with bounded clique number has subpolynomial treewidth. Specifically, we prove that for every integer $t$ there exist $ε\in (0,1]$ and $c \in \mathbb{N}$ such that every $n$-vertex $\{K_{t,t},W_{t\times t}\}$-induced minor-free graph with no clique of size $t$ has treewidth at most $2^{c\log^{1-ε}n}$.
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spellingShingle Induced minors and subpolynomial treewidth
Chudnovsky, Maria
Codsi, Julien
Fischer, David
Lokshtanov, Daniel
Combinatorics
05C75, 05C40, 05C85
Given a family $\mathcal{H}$ of graphs, we say that a graph $G$ is $\mathcal{H}$-induced-minor-free if no induced minor of $G$ is isomorphic to a member of $\mathcal{H}$, We denote by $W_{t\times t}$ the $t$-by-$t$ hexagonal grid, and by $K_{t,t}$ the complete bipartite graph with both sides of the bipartition of size $t$. We show that the class of $\{K_{t,t},W_{t\times t}\}$-induced minor-free graphs with bounded clique number has subpolynomial treewidth. Specifically, we prove that for every integer $t$ there exist $ε\in (0,1]$ and $c \in \mathbb{N}$ such that every $n$-vertex $\{K_{t,t},W_{t\times t}\}$-induced minor-free graph with no clique of size $t$ has treewidth at most $2^{c\log^{1-ε}n}$.
title Induced minors and subpolynomial treewidth
topic Combinatorics
05C75, 05C40, 05C85
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2512.18835