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Number of cliques in graphs with a forbidden subdivision
We prove that for all positive integers , every -vertex graph with no
-subdivision has at most cliques. We also prove that
asymptotically, such graphs contain at most cliques, where
tends to zero as tends to infinity. This strongly answers a question
of D. Wood asking if the number of cliques in -vertex graphs with no
-minor is at most for some constant .Comment: 10 pages; to appear in SIAM J. Discrete Mat
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