Lax2Functional Equivalence of Twin-Width and Mixed Minor Number
Abstract
This submission gives a full Lean proof that finite-graph twin-width and mixed minor number are functionally equivalent: each parameter is bounded by a numerical function of the other.
The concept surface has two review units. The first gives the complete definition of mixed minor number — interval divisions, mixed matrix cells, mixed minors, and vertex-ordered adjacency matrices — phrased with plain structures and Prop-valued predicates, and with the parameter an infimum of an explicit set of naturals. The second states the functional equivalence with the twin-width parameter of submission Lax1, applied directly to the two parameters through a shared uniform signature. The proof runs through the Marcus–Tardos theorem, the matrix grid-minor theorem, and the graph twin-decomposition bridge; both submitted parameters are proved pointwise equal to their source counterparts, via the black-is-complete / red-is-non-homogeneous invariant for contraction sequences and a pointwise division-and-cell translation for mixed minors.
Ported from Édouard Bonnet's original formalization of twin-width, which is MIT-licensed.
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Cite this
@misc{Lax2,
author = {Édouard Bonnet},
title = {Functional Equivalence of Twin-Width and Mixed Minor Number},
year = {2026},
howpublished = {Lax Archive, Lax2},
url = {https://laxarchive.org/Lax2/},
note = {draft},
}
References
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doi = {10.1145/3486655}
}
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}