Wednesday, February 12, 2025

2025-02-18 / 16:30 ~ 17:30

IBS-KAIST 세미나 - 이산수학: Erdős-Pósa property of A-paths in unoriented group-labelled graphs

by O-joung Kwon(Hanyang University & IBS Discrete Mathematics )

A family $\mathcal{F}$ of graphs is said to satisfy the Erdős-Pósa property if there exists a function $f$ such that for every positive integer $k$, every graph $G$ contains either $k$ (vertex-)disjoint subgraphs in $\mathcal{F}$ or a set of at most $f(k)$ vertices intersecting every subgraph of $G$ in $\mathcal{F}$. We characterize the obstructions to the Erdős-Pósa property of $A$-paths in unoriented group-labelled graphs. As a result, we prove that for every finite abelian group $\Gamma$ and for every subset $\Lambda$ of $\Gamma$, the family of $\Gamma$-labelled $A$-paths whose lengths are in $\Lambda$ satisfies the half-integral relaxation of the Erdős-Pósa property. Moreover, we give a characterization of such $\Gamma$ and $\Lambda\subseteq\Gamma$ for which the same family of $A$-paths satisfies the full Erdős-Pósa property. This is joint work with Youngho Yoo.

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