K.K. Dabrowski
Tree pivot-minors and linear rank-width
Dabrowski, K.K.; Dross, F.; Jeong, J.; Kante, M.M.; Kwon, O.; Oum, S.; Paulusma, D.
Authors
F. Dross
J. Jeong
M.M. Kante
O. Kwon
S. Oum
Professor Daniel Paulusma daniel.paulusma@durham.ac.uk
Professor
Abstract
Tree-width and its linear variant path-width play a central role for the graph minor relation. In particular, Robertson and Seymour (1983) proved that for every tree T, the class of graphs that do not contain T as a minor has bounded path-width. For the pivot-minor relation, rank-width and linear rank-width take over the role of tree-width and path-width. As such, it is natural to examine if, for every tree T, the class of graphs that do not contain T as a pivot-minor has bounded linear rank-width. We first prove that this statement is false whenever T is a tree that is not a caterpillar. We conjecture that the statement is true if T is a caterpillar. We are also able to give partial confirmation of this conjecture by proving: • for every tree T, the class of T-pivot-minor-free distance-hereditary graphs has bounded linear rank-width if and only if T is a caterpillar; • for every caterpillar T on at most four vertices, the class of T-pivot-minor-free graphs has bounded linear rank-width. To prove our second result, we only need to consider T “ P4 and T “ K1,3, but we follow a general strategy: first we show that the class of T-pivot-minor-free graphs is contained in some class of pH1, H2q-free graphs, which we then show to have bounded linear rank-width. In particular, we prove that the class of pK3, S1,2,2q-free graphs has bounded linear rank-width, which strengthens a known result that this graph class has bounded rank-width.
Citation
Dabrowski, K., Dross, F., Jeong, J., Kante, M., Kwon, O., Oum, S., & Paulusma, D. (2021). Tree pivot-minors and linear rank-width. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 35(4), 2922-2945. https://doi.org/10.1137/21m1402339
Journal Article Type | Article |
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Acceptance Date | Aug 11, 2021 |
Online Publication Date | Dec 7, 2021 |
Publication Date | 2021 |
Deposit Date | Aug 23, 2021 |
Publicly Available Date | Aug 24, 2021 |
Journal | SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics |
Print ISSN | 0895-4801 |
Electronic ISSN | 1095-7146 |
Publisher | Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics |
Peer Reviewed | Peer Reviewed |
Volume | 35 |
Issue | 4 |
Pages | 2922-2945 |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1137/21m1402339 |
Public URL | https://durham-repository.worktribe.com/output/1266267 |
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