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Excluding infinite clique minors

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Neil Robertson, Paul Seymour and Robin Thomas

Publication: Memoirs of the American Mathematical Society
Publication Year: 1996; Volume 118, Number 566
ISBNs: 978-0-8218-0402-5 (print); 978-1-4704-0145-0 (online)
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1090/memo/0566
MathSciNet review: 1303095
MSC: Primary 05C99

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Table of Contents

Chapters

  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Dissections
  • 3. Havens and minors
  • 4. Clustered havens of order $\aleph _0$
  • 5. The easy halves
  • 6. Divisions
  • 7. Long divisions
  • 8. Robust divisions
  • 9. Limited dissections
  • 10. Excluding the half-grid
  • 11. Excluding $K_{\aleph _0}$
  • 12. Dissections and tree-decompositions
  • 13. Topological trees
  • 14. Well-founded trees
  • 15. Well-founded tree-decompositions