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Proving a Witness Lemma in Better-Quasiordering Theory: The Method of "Extensions"
by Igor Kriz
We introduce a new method for proving "witness lemmas" in BQO theory. As an application, we obtain witness-lemmas for arbitrary trees and for \sigma-scattered linear orderings. A positive answer of a question by Van Engelen, Miller and Steel follows.