Quickly excluding a forest

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Abstract

We prove that for every forest F, every graph with no minor isomorphic to F has path-width at most |V(F)| −2.

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Current address: Department of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research, Columbia University, New York, NY 10027.

This research was performed under a consulting agreement with Bellcore.