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Obstructions for tree-depth. (English) Zbl 1273.05212
Nešetřil, Jaroslav (ed.) et al., Extended abstracts of the 5th European conference on combinatorics, graph theory and applications, EuroComb’09, Bordeaux, France, September 7–11, 2009. Amsterdam: Elsevier. Electronic Notes in Discrete Mathematics 34, 249-253 (2009).
Summary: For every $$k \geq 0$$, we define $${\mathcal{G}}_{k}$$ as the class of graphs with tree-depth at most $$k$$, i.e., the class containing every graph $$G$$ admitting a valid colouring $$\rho : V(G) \to \{1,\dots,k\}$$ such that every $$(x,y)$$-path between two vertices where $$\rho(x) = \rho(y)$$ contains a vertex $$z$$ where $$\rho(z) > \rho(x)$$. In this paper we study the class $$\mathsf{obs}({\mathcal{G}}_{k})$$ of minor-minimal elements not belonging in $${\mathcal{G}}_{k}$$ for every $$k \geq 0$$. We give a precise characterization of $${\mathcal{G}}_{k}$$, $$k \leq 3$$ and prove a structural lemma for creating graphs $$G \in \mathsf{obs}({\mathcal{G}}_{k})$$, $$k>0$$. As a consequence, we obtain a precise characterization of all acyclic graphs in $$\mathsf{obs}({\mathcal{G}}_{k})$$ and we prove that they are exactly $$\frac{1}{2}2^{2^{k-1}-k}\left(1+2^{2^{k-1}-k}\right)$$.
For the entire collection see [Zbl 1239.05008].

##### MSC:
 05C83 Graph minors 05C30 Enumeration in graph theory
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