Divisible subdivisions

Noga Alon, Michael Krivelevich*

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Abstract

We prove that for every graph (Formula presented.) of maximum degree at most 3 and for every positive integer (Formula presented.) there is a finite (Formula presented.) such that every (Formula presented.) -minor contains a subdivision of (Formula presented.) in which every edge is replaced by a path whose length is divisible by (Formula presented.). For the case of cycles we show that for (Formula presented.) every (Formula presented.) -minor contains a cycle of length divisible by (Formula presented.), and observe that this settles a recent problem of Friedman and the second author about cycles in (weakly) expanding graphs.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)623-629
Number of pages7
JournalJournal of Graph Theory
Volume98
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - 2021

Funding

FundersFunder number
USA-Israel BSF
USA‐Israel BSF
National Science FoundationDMS‐1855464
Simons Foundation
United States-Israel Binational Science Foundation2018267
Israel Science Foundation1261/17

    Keywords

    • complete minors
    • cycles
    • divisibility
    • expanders
    • subdivisions

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