Pablo Blanco, Linda Cook, Meike Hatzel, Claire Hilaire, Freddie Illingworth, Rose McCarty
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Abstract
In 2019, Dvořák asked whether every connected graph has a tree decomposition so that is a subgraph of and the width of is bounded by a function of the treewidth of . We prove that this is false, even when has treewidth 2 and is allowed to be a minor of .