QUICKLY EXCLUDING A PLANAR GRAPH

被引:257
作者
ROBERTSON, N
SEYMOUR, P
THOMAS, R
机构
[1] BELLCORE,MORRISTOWN,NJ 07960
[2] RUTGERS STATE UNIV,DIMACS CTR,HILL CTR,NEW BRUNSWICK,NJ 08903
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D O I
10.1006/jctb.1994.1073
中图分类号
O1 [数学];
学科分类号
0701 ; 070101 ;
摘要
In an earlier paper, the first two authors proved that for any planar graph H, every graph with no minor isomorphic to H has bounded tree width; but the bound given there was enormous. Here we prove a much better bound. We also improve the best known bound on the tree-width of planar graphs with no minor isomorphic to a g x g grid. (C) 1994 Academic Press, Inc.
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页码:323 / 348
页数:26
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