The branchwidth of graphs and their cycle matroids

  • Authors:
  • Illya V. Hicks;Nolan B. McMurray, Jr.

  • Affiliations:
  • Industrial and Systems Engineering Department, Texas A & M University, College Station, TX 77843-3131, USA;Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of North Carolina at Wilmington, 601 S. College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Combinatorial Theory Series B
  • Year:
  • 2007

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Abstract

We prove a conjecture stating that the branchwidth of a graph and the branchwidth of the graph's cycle matroid are equal if the graph has a cycle of length at least 2.