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746: 766:, the cycle with three vertices). This means that a graph is a forest if and only if none of its minors is the loop (or, the cycle with three vertices, respectively). The sole obstruction for the set of paths is the tree with four vertices, one of which has degree 3. In these cases, the obstruction set contains a single element, but in general this is not the case. 203:. For instance, the usual ordering on the non-negative integers is a well-quasi-ordering, but the same ordering on the set of all integers is not, because it contains the infinite descending chain 0, −1, −2, −3... Another example is the set of positive integers ordered by 867:
However, this method requires a specific finite obstruction set to work, and the theorem does not provide one. The theorem proves that such a finite obstruction set exists, and therefore the problem is polynomial because of the above algorithm. However, the algorithm can be used in practice only if
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of graphs, there must be a pair of graphs one of which is a minor of the other. The statement that every infinite set has finitely many minimal elements implies this form of the theorem, for if there are only finitely many minimal elements, then each of the remaining graphs must belong to a pair of
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The Robertson–Seymour theorem states that finite undirected graphs and graph minors form a well-quasi-ordering. The graph minor relationship does not contain any infinite descending chain, because each contraction or deletion reduces the number of edges and vertices of the graph (a non-negative
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Although the Robertson–Seymour theorem extends these results to arbitrary minor-closed graph families, it is not a complete substitute for these results, because it does not provide an explicit description of the obstruction set for any family. For example, it tells us that the set of
872:: they prove polynomiality of problems without providing an explicit polynomial-time algorithm. In many specific cases, checking whether a graph is in a given minor-closed family can be done more efficiently: for example, checking whether a graph is planar can be done in linear time. 924:, because of the difficulty of determining the set of forbidden minors. Additionally, the large constant factors involved in these results make them highly impractical. Therefore, the development of explicit fixed-parameter algorithms for these problems, with improved dependence on 255:
this type with one of the minimal elements. And in the other direction, this form of the theorem implies the statement that there can be no infinite antichains, because an infinite antichain is a set that does not contain any pair related by the minor relation.
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are closed under taking minors: contracting an edge in a planar graph, or removing edges or vertices from the graph, cannot destroy its planarity. Therefore, the planar graphs have a forbidden minor characterization, which in this case is given by
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such a finite obstruction set is provided. As a result, the theorem proves that the problem can be solved in polynomial time, but does not provide a concrete polynomial-time algorithm for solving it. Such proofs of polynomiality are
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are minor-closed, the same method applies. For instance, by this result, treewidth, branchwidth, and pathwidth, vertex cover, and the minimum genus of an embedding are all amenable to this approach, and for any fixed
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Some examples of finite obstruction sets were already known for specific classes of graphs before the Robertson–Seymour theorem was proved. For example, the obstruction for the set of all forests is the
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The existence of forbidden minor characterizations for all minor-closed graph families is an equivalent way of stating the Robertson–Seymour theorem. For, suppose that every minor-closed family
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has a finite obstruction set, but it does not provide any such set. The complete set of forbidden minors for toroidal graphs remains unknown, but it contains at least 17,535 graphs.
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as a minor. This algorithm's running time is cubic (in the size of the graph to check), though with a constant factor that depends superpolynomially on the size of the minor
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integer). The nontrivial part of the theorem is that there are no infinite antichains, infinite sets of graphs that are all unrelated to each other by the minor ordering. If
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However, this method does not directly provide a single fixed-parameter-tractable algorithm for computing the parameter value for a given graph with unknown
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The Robertson–Seymour theorem has an important consequence in computational complexity, due to the proof by Robertson and Seymour that, for each fixed graph
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The following sets of finite graphs are minor-closed, and therefore (by the Robertson–Seymour theorem) have forbidden minor characterizations:
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For the other implication, assume that every set of graphs has a finite subset of minimal graphs and let a minor-closed set
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on the set of all distinct finite undirected graphs, as it obeys the three axioms of partial orders: it is
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forms an antichain; therefore, an equivalent way of stating the theorem is that, in any infinite set
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of a graph is the total number of its vertices and edges, and ≤ denotes the minor ordering.)
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there is a polynomial time algorithm for testing whether these invariants are at most
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of graphs, there must be only a finite number of non-isomorphic minimal elements.
188:, a relation that is reflexive and transitive but not necessarily antisymmetric. 1364:(1987), "The metamathematics of the graph minor theorem", in Simpson, S. (ed.), 901:, in which the exponent in the running time of the algorithm does not depend on 733: 1552: 1406: 745: 687: 665: 1578: 848:, there is polynomial time algorithm for testing whether a graph belongs to 729: 725: 200: 1522: 1328:(1988), "Nonconstructive tools for proving polynomial-time decidability", 699: 305:). According to the Robertson–Seymour theorem, there exists a finite set 185: 1344: 250:
Another equivalent form of the theorem is that, in any infinite set
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of minor-minimal nonplanar graphs contains exactly two graphs, the
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under the operation of taking minors if every minor of a graph in
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containing one representative graph for each equivalence class of
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are the forbidden minors for the set of outerplanar graphs.
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states that a graph is planar if and only if it has neither
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The Robertson–Seymour theorem is named after mathematicians
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by a sequence of zero or more contractions of edges of
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in various formal systems that are much stronger than
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are exactly the graphs that do not have any graph in
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Diestel, Reinhard (2005), "Minors, Trees, and WQO",
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of size bounded by some fixed constant; graphs with
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as the family of graphs that do not have a minor in
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Excluding a forest", 1258: 1215: 939:showed that the following theorem exhibits the 1387:"The disjoint paths problem in quadratic time" 1420:Bulletin of the American Mathematical Society 753:, the obstruction set for linkless embedding. 8: 1199: 1197: 724:bounded by some fixed constant; graphs with 180:are minors of each other, then they must be 16:Finiteness of sets of forbidden graph minors 553:if and only if it does not have a minor in 1368:, Contemporary Mathematics, vol. 65, 1228:Kawarabayashi, Kobayashi & Reed (2012) 990:is a sequence of finite undirected graphs, 836:algorithm for testing whether a graph has 709:in Euclidean 3-space, and graphs that are 1551: 1540:Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 1521: 1510:Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 1491: 1480:Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 1461: 1431: 1405: 1394:Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B 1343: 909:with an exponent that does not depend on 534:is the finite set of minimal elements of 235:but for which no proper minor belongs to 59:as being the graphs that do not have the 1168: 1166: 937:Friedman, Robertson & Seymour (1987) 1450:The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics 1157: 1128: 1116: 1104: 1064: 569:be the finite set of minimal graphs in 293:be the class of graphs that are not in 144:and deletions of edges and vertices of 136:is any graph that may be obtained from 1246: 1203: 1188: 1172: 1132: 932:Finite form of the graph minor theorem 414:be any infinite set of graphs. Define 1245:, Theorem 2.1.4 and Corollary 2.1.5; 784:as a minor. In other words, the set { 430:is minor-closed and has a finite set 410:of minimal forbidden minors, and let 7: 1095:Robertson and Seymour ( 888:, the graphs with invariant at most 156:(every graph is a minor of itself), 113:and proved in 1960 independently by 289:is a minor-closed family, then let 109:, which was conjectured in 1937 by 549:of graphs such that a graph is in 211:constitute an infinite antichain. 14: 1148:, Section 2, "well-quasi-orders". 884:with the property that, for each 722:Colin de Verdière graph invariant 649:Examples of minor-closed families 526:have a minor among the graphs in 434:of minimal forbidden minors. Let 259:Forbidden minor characterizations 148:. The minor relationship forms a 713:embeddable in Euclidean 3-space; 545:be given. We want to find a set 315:forbidden graph characterization 313:. These minimal elements form a 265:Forbidden graph characterization 1263:Bienstock & Langston (1995) 1243:Bienstock & Langston (1995) 1185:Bienstock & Langston (1995) 1146:Bienstock & Langston (1995) 1072:Bienstock & Langston (1995) 762:graph (or, if one restricts to 736:bounded by some fixed constant. 621:is not a minor of any graph in 94:after the German mathematician 1418:(2005), "Graph Minor Theory", 1239:Robertson & Seymour (1995) 1084:Robertson & Seymour (2004) 573:. Now, let an arbitrary graph 478:cannot have a proper minor in 1: 1444:; Woodcock, Jennifer (2018), 1433:10.1090/S0273-0979-05-01088-8 1370:American Mathematical Society 1299:10.1016/S0927-0507(05)80125-2 1259:Fellows & Langston (1988) 1216:Myrvold & Woodcock (2018) 966:: For every positive integer 698:on any fixed two-dimensional 694:, and the graphs that can be 191:A preorder is said to form a 1493:10.1016/0095-8956(83)90079-5 955:in systems much weaker than 876:Fixed-parameter tractability 629:is minor-closed. Therefore, 577:be given. Assume first that 1574:"Robertson-Seymour Theorem" 824:Polynomial time recognition 329:as a minor. 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Index

graph theory
undirected graphs
partially ordered
graph minor
well-quasi-ordering
forbidden minors
Wagner's theorem
planar graphs
complete graph
complete bipartite graph
Neil Robertson
Paul D. Seymour
Klaus Wagner
trees
Kruskal's tree theorem
Andrew Vázsonyi
Joseph Kruskal
minor
undirected graph
partial order
reflexive
transitive
antisymmetric
isomorphic
preorder
well-quasi-ordering
infinite descending chain
antichain
divisibility
prime numbers

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