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NOTE Spectral Characterization of Tree-Width-Two Graphs

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) of a graph G, similar in spirit to his now-classical invariant . He showed that is minor-monotone and is related to the tree-width la(G) of G: and, moreover, , i.e. G is a forest. We show that and give the corresponding forbidden-minor and ear-decomposition characterizations.

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Received October 9, 1997/Revised July 27, 1999

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Kotlov, A. NOTE Spectral Characterization of Tree-Width-Two Graphs. Combinatorica 20, 147–152 (2000). https://doi.org/10.1007/s004930070038

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