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What is an example of two simple, undirected graphs $G,H$ such that

  • there are no graph homomorphisms between $G, H$, and
  • $H$ is not a minor of $G$, and $G$ is not a minor of $H$

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Definition of minor: Let $G$ be a simple undirected graph. If $S, T$ are disjoint subsets of $V(G)$ we say that $S, T$ are connected to each other if there is $s\in S, t\in T$ such that $\{s,t\}\in E(G)$. If $G,H$ are graphs, we say $H$ is a minor of $G$ if there is a family ${\cal S}$ of pairwise disjoint connected subsets of $V(G)$ and a bijection $\varphi:V(H)\to {\cal S}$ such that whenever $\{v,w\}\in E(H)$ then $\varphi(v)$ and $\varphi(w)$ are connected to each other.

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    $\begingroup$ $G = K_3$ and $H = C_4$? $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 15, 2015 at 7:44
  • $\begingroup$ That's right -- Sorry - I meant the symmetric relation (not an image of each other, not a minor of each other), will correct this $\endgroup$ Commented Jun 15, 2015 at 8:18

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