{"title":"On the Edge-Erdős–Pósa Property of Ladders","authors":"Raphael Steck, Arthur Ulmer","doi":"10.1007/s00373-024-02765-w","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>We prove that the ladder with 3 rungs and the house graph have the edge-Erdős–Pósa property, while ladders with 14 rungs or more have not. Additionally, we prove that the latter bound is optimal in the sense that the only known counterexample graph does not permit a better result.</p>","PeriodicalId":0,"journal":{"name":"","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-024-02765-w","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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We prove that the ladder with 3 rungs and the house graph have the edge-Erdős–Pósa property, while ladders with 14 rungs or more have not. Additionally, we prove that the latter bound is optimal in the sense that the only known counterexample graph does not permit a better result.