Tangles are Decided by Weighted Vertex Sets
Advances in Combinatorics (2020)
We show that, given a $ k $-tangle $ τ$ in a graph $ G $, there always exists a weight function $ w\colon V(G)\to\mathbb{N} $ such that a separation $ (A,B) $ of $ G $ of order $ {}k $ lies in $ τ$ if and only if $ w(A)$, where $ w(U) := \sum_{u\in U}w(u) $ for $ U\subseteq V(G) $. We show that the same result holds also for tangles of hypergraphs as well as for edge-tangles of graphs, but not for edge-tangles of hypergraphs.
@article{ADVC_2020_a2,
author = {Christian Elbracht and Jay Lilian Kneip and Maximilian Teegen},
title = {Tangles are {Decided} by {Weighted} {Vertex} {Sets}},
journal = {Advances in Combinatorics},
year = {2020},
language = {en},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ADVC_2020_a2/}
}
Christian Elbracht; Jay Lilian Kneip; Maximilian Teegen. Tangles are Decided by Weighted Vertex Sets. Advances in Combinatorics (2020). http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/item/ADVC_2020_a2/