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Abstract
We present problems and results that combine graph-minors and coarse geometry. For example, we ask whether every geodesic metric space (or graph) without a fat H minor is quasi-isometric to a graph with no H minor, for an arbitrary finite graph H. We answer this affirmatively for a few small H. We also present a metric analogue of Menger’s theorem and König’s ray theorem. We conjecture metric analogues of the Erdős–Pósa Theorem and Halin’s grid theorem.
期刊介绍:
COMBINATORICA publishes research papers in English in a variety of areas of combinatorics and the theory of computing, with particular emphasis on general techniques and unifying principles. Typical but not exclusive topics covered by COMBINATORICA are
- Combinatorial structures (graphs, hypergraphs, matroids, designs, permutation groups).
- Combinatorial optimization.
- Combinatorial aspects of geometry and number theory.
- Algorithms in combinatorics and related fields.
- Computational complexity theory.
- Randomization and explicit construction in combinatorics and algorithms.