Rose McCarty presented a result on flooding immersions of Eulerian group-labelled graphs motivated by vertex-minors of graphs at the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium

At the Virtual Discrete Math Colloquium on January 13, 2021, Rose McCarty from University of Waterloo gave a talk presenting her work with Jim Geelen and Paul Wollan on flooding immersions of Eulerian group-labelled graphs, related to vertex-minors of graphs. The title of her talk was “Vertex-minors and flooding immersions“.

Rose McCarty, Vertex-minors and flooding immersions

An immersion of a graph H into a graph G sends edges of H into edge-disjoint trails of G. We say the immersion is flooding if every edge of G is in one of the trails. Flooding immersions are interesting for Eulerian group-labelled graphs; in this context they behave quite differently from regular immersions. Moreover, understanding such flooding immersions is a vital step towards understanding the structure of graphs with a forbidden vertex-minor.

I will focus on explaining the connection to vertex-minors, and on recent progress in this direction from ongoing joint work with Jim Geelen and Paul Wollan.

Rose McCarty, Circle graphs are polynomially chi-bounded

Circle graphs are the intersection graphs of chords on a circle; vertices correspond to chords, and two vertices are adjacent if their chords intersect. We prove that every circle graph with clique number k has chromatic number at most 4k2. Joint with James Davies.

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