%0 Journal Article %T Independent Sets in Graphs with an Excluded Clique Minor %A David R. Wood %J Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science %D 2007 %I Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science %X Let G be a graph with n vertices, with independence number ¦Á, and with no K t+1-minor for some t ¡Ý 5. It is proved that (2¦Á - 1)(2t - 5) ¡Ý 2n - 5. %U http://www.dmtcs.org/dmtcs-ojs/index.php/dmtcs/article/view/617