Characterizations of Graphs Without Certain Small Minors

This dissertation contributes new results about minor-restricted families of graphs to the field of structural graph theory. A graph G contains a graph H as a minor if H can be formed from G through a sequence of vertex deletions, edge deletions, and edge contractions. Graph minors are of interest i...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gaslowitz, Joshua Zachary
Other Authors: Mike Mihalik
Format: Others
Language:en
Published: VANDERBILT 2018
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Online Access:http://etd.library.vanderbilt.edu/available/etd-03262018-125736/