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Tight bound for the Erdős-Pósa property of tree minors (2403.06370v2)
Published 11 Mar 2024 in math.CO and cs.DM
Abstract: Let $T$ be a tree on $t$ vertices. We prove that for every positive integer $k$ and every graph $G$, either $G$ contains $k$ pairwise vertex-disjoint subgraphs each having a $T$ minor, or there exists a set $X$ of at most $t(k-1)$ vertices of $G$ such that $G-X$ has no $T$ minor. The bound on the size of $X$ is best possible and improves on an earlier $f(t)k$ bound proved by Fiorini, Joret, and Wood (2013) with some fast growing function $f(t)$. Moreover, our proof is short and simple.
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