Bannister–Ojakian's shallow topological-minor conjecture for stack-number

Let GG and HH be graphs, and let k0k\geqslant 0 be a half-integer. A graph HH is a kk-shallow topological minor of GG if a subgraph of GG is isomorphic to a subdivision of HH in which each edge is replaced by a path with at most 2k2k internal vertices. Write sn(G)\operatorname{sn}(G) for the stack-number of GG. Bannister–Ojakian's conjecture. There exists a function ff such that for every graph GG and half-integer k0k\geqslant 0, if HH is any kk-shallow topological minor of GG, then

sn(H)f(sn(G),k).\operatorname{sn}(H)\leqslant f(\operatorname{sn}(G),k).

The conjecture proposed that stack-number is well-behaved under shallow topological minors. It was disproved by Dujmović, Eppstein, Hickingbotham, Morin, and Wood (2021).

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David Eppstein, Robert Hickingbotham, Laura Merker, Sergey Norin, Michał T. Seweryn and David R. Wood, “Three-dimensional graph products with unbounded stack-number”, arXiv:2202.05327 (2022).

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