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    On building 4-critical plane and projective plane multiwheels from odd wheels

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    We build unbounded classes of plane and projective plane multiwheels that are 4-critical that are received summing odd wheels as edge sums modulo two. These classes can be considered as ascending from single common graph that can be received as edge sum modulo two of the octahedron graph O and the minimal wheel W3. All graphs of these classes belong to 2n-2-edges-class of graphs, among which are those that quadrangulate projective plane, i.e., graphs from Gr\"otzsch class, received applying Mycielski's Construction to odd cycle.Comment: 10 page

    A tight Erd\H{o}s-P\'osa function for wheel minors

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    Let WtW_t denote the wheel on t+1t+1 vertices. We prove that for every integer t3t \geq 3 there is a constant c=c(t)c=c(t) such that for every integer k1k\geq 1 and every graph GG, either GG has kk vertex-disjoint subgraphs each containing WtW_t as minor, or there is a subset XX of at most cklogkc k \log k vertices such that GXG-X has no WtW_t minor. This is best possible, up to the value of cc. We conjecture that the result remains true more generally if we replace WtW_t with any fixed planar graph HH.Comment: 15 pages, 1 figur
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