Topological Minors of Cover Graphs and Dimension |
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| Authors: | Piotr Micek Veit Wiechert |
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| Affiliation: | 1. THEORETICAL COMPUTER SCIENCE DEPARTMENT, FACULTY OF MATHEMATICS AND COMPUTER SCIENCE, JAGIELLONIAN UNIVERSITY, KRAKóW, POLAND;2. INSTITUT Für MATHEMATIK, TECHNISCHE UNIVERSIT?T BERLIN, BERLIN, GERMANY |
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| Abstract: | We show that posets of bounded height whose cover graphs exclude a fixed graph as a topological minor have bounded dimension. This result was already proven by Walczak. However, our argument is entirely combinatorial and does not rely on structural decomposition theorems. Given a poset with large dimension but bounded height, we directly find a large clique subdivision in its cover graph. Therefore, our proof is accessible to readers not familiar with topological graph theory, and it allows us to provide explicit upper bounds on the dimension. With the introduced tools we show a second result that is supporting a conjectured generalization of the previous result. We prove that  ‐free posets whose cover graphs exclude a fixed graph as a topological minor contain only standard examples of size bounded in terms of k. |
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| Keywords: | poset dimension cover graph graph minor |
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‐free posets whose cover graphs exclude a fixed graph as a topological minor contain only standard examples of size bounded in terms of k.