Minor

Minor may refer to:

  • Minor (law), a person under the age of majority or another age restriction
  • Academic minor, a secondary field of study in undergraduate education
  • Music theory

  • Minor chord
  • Barbershop seventh chord or minor seventh chord
  • Minor interval
  • Minor key
  • Minor scale
  • Mathematics

  • Minor (graph theory), the relation of one graph to another given certain conditions
  • Minor (linear algebra), the determinant of a certain submatrix
  • People

  • Dan Minor (1909–1982), American jazz trombonist
  • Kyle Minor (born 1976), American writer
  • Mike Minor (actor) (born 1940), American actor
  • Mike Minor (baseball) (born 1987), American baseball pitcher
  • William Chester Minor (1834–1920), American contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary
  • Places

  • Minor, Alabama, United States
  • Asia Minor, the westernmost region of Asia
  • Minor Creek, a stream in California
  • Sports

  • Minor league, a sports league not regarded as a premier league
    • Minor League Baseball or "the minors", the North American professional baseball leagues affiliated to but below Major League Baseball
  • Minor (academic)

    An academic minor is a college or university student's declared secondary academic discipline during their undergraduate studies. As with an academic major, the college or university in question lays out a framework of required classes or class types a student must complete to earn the minor—although the latitude the student is given changes from college to college. Academic minors and majors differ in that the former is subordinate to the latter. To obtain an academic minor, a total of two years of study at a university in a selected subject is the usual requirement.

    Some students will prepare for their intended career with their major, while pursuing personal interests with a minor. For example, some students may major in civil engineering and minor in a foreign language.

    Other students may pursue a minor to provide specific specialization and thus make themselves more attractive to employers. It is not infrequent for a physics major to minor in computer science or an economics major to minor in mathematics. Engineering students frequently take a minor in mathematics, as they already have most course credits needed for the purpose.

    Graph minor

    In graph theory, an undirected graph H is called a minor of the graph G if H can be formed from G by deleting edges and vertices and by contracting edges.

    The theory of graph minors began with Wagner's theorem that a graph is planar if and only if its minors do not include the complete graph K5 nor the complete bipartite graph K3,3. The Robertson–Seymour theorem implies that an analogous forbidden minor characterization exists for every property of graphs that is preserved by deletions and edge contractions. For every fixed graph H, it is possible to test whether H is a minor of an input graph G in polynomial time; together with the forbidden minor characterization this implies that every graph property preserved by deletions and contractions may be recognized in polynomial time.

    Other results and conjectures involving graph minors include the graph structure theorem, according to which the graphs that do not have H as a minor may be formed by gluing together simpler pieces, and Hadwiger's conjecture relating the inability to color a graph to the existence of a large complete graph as a minor of it. Important variants of graph minors include the topological minors and immersion minors.

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