Girth and treewidth

  • Authors:
  • L. Sunil Chandran;C. R. Subramanian

  • Affiliations:
  • Max-Planck Institute für Informatik, Stuhlsatzenhausweg 85, 66123 Saarbrücken, Germany and Indian Institute of Science;The Institute of Mathematical Sciences, Chennai 600113, India

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2005

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Abstract

The length of the shortest cycle in a graph G is called the girth of G. In particular, we show that if G has girth at least g and average degree at least d, then tw(G) = Ω(1/g+1 (d - 1)⌊(g - 1)/2⌋). In view of a famous conjecture regarding the existence of graphs with girth g, minimum degree δ and having at most c(δ - 1)⌊(g - 1)/2⌋ vertices (for some constant c), this lower bound seems to be almost tight (but for a multiplicative factor of g + 1).