Minor-minimal planar graphs of even branch-width

2010/07/02 by Inkmann, Torsten, Thomas, Robin
#Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics

paper · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1007.0373

Abstract

Let k>0 be an integer, let H be a minor-minimal graph in the projective plane such that every homotopically non-trivial closed curve intersects H at least k times, and let G be the planar double cover of H obtained by lifting G into the universal covering space of the projective plane, the sphere. We prove that G is minor-minimal of branch-width 2k. We also exhibit examples of minor-minimal planar graphs of branch-width 6 that do not arise this way.

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