A splitter theorem for large 3-connected graphs

Series
Combinatorics Seminar
Time
Friday, November 2, 2018 - 3:00pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Guoli Ding – Louisiana State University – https://www.math.lsu.edu/~ding/
Organizer
Lutz Warnke
The purpose of this talk is to explain the following result. Let n > 2 be an integer. Let H be a 3-connected minor of a 3-connected graph G. If G is sufficiently large (relative to n and the size of H) then G has a 3-connected minor obtained from H by “adding” K_{3,n} or W_n.