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Constructing Tree-Decompositions That Display All Topological Ends

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We give a short, topological proof that all graphs admit tree-decompositions displaying their topological ends.

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Pitz, M. Constructing Tree-Decompositions That Display All Topological Ends. Combinatorica 42, 763–769 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00493-022-4987-1

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