• Title of article

    Vertex-minor reductions can simulate edge contractions Original Research Article

  • Author/Authors

    Mamadou Moustapha Kanté، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2007
  • Pages
    13
  • From page
    2328
  • To page
    2340
  • Abstract
    We prove that local complementation and vertex deletion, operations from which vertex-minors are defined, can simulate edge contractions. As an application, we prove that the rank-width of a graph is linearly bounded in term of its tree-width.
  • Keywords
    Clique-width , Tree-width , Local complementation , Rank-width , Edge contraction , Vertex-minor , Tree-decomposition
  • Journal title
    Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Serial Year
    2007
  • Journal title
    Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Record number

    886596