Tree-depth and Vertex-minors
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| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | European Journal of Combinatorics |
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| Citation | |
| Doi | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ejc.2016.03.001 |
| Field | Informatics |
| Keywords | tree-depth; shrub-depth; vertex-minor; pivot-minor |
| Description | In a recent paper Kwon and Oum (2014), Kwon and Oum claim that every graph of bounded rank-width is a pivot-minor of a graph of bounded tree-width (while the converse has been known true already before). We study the analogous questions for “depth” parameters of graphs, namely for the tree-depth and related new shrub-depth. We show how a suitable adaptation of known results implies that shrub-depth is monotone under taking vertex-minors, and we prove that every graph class of bounded shrub-depth can be obtained via vertex-minors of graphs of bounded tree-depth. While we exhibit an example that pivot-minors are generally not sufficient (unlike Kwon and Oum (2014)) in the latter statement, we then prove that the bipartite graphs in every class of bounded shrub-depth can be obtained as pivot-minors of graphs of bounded tree-depth. |
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