On graphs with few disjoint t-star minors

  • Authors:
  • Colin Mcdiarmid

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2011

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Abstract

For fixed positive integers t=3 and k, consider the class of graphs which have at most k disjoint minors isomorphic to a t-star. We shall see that almost all of these graphs contain k vertices such that deleting them leaves a graph with no such minor. This holds for both labelled and unlabelled graphs, and answers a question of Bernardi, Noy and Welsh. We also estimate the asymptotic proportion of graphs in the class which do not have this property.