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A note on the double-critical graph conjecture

Combinatorics 2016-04-19 v1

Abstract

A connected nn-chromatic graph GG is double-critical if for all the edges xyxy of GG, the graph GxyG-x-y is (n2)(n-2)-chromatic. In 1966, Erd\H os and Lov\'asz conjectured that the only double-critical nn-chromatic graph is KnK_n. This conjecture remains unresolved for n6.n \ge 6. In this short note, we verify this conjecture for claw-free graphs GG of chromatic number 66.

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@article{arxiv.1604.05262,
  title  = {A note on the double-critical graph conjecture},
  author = {Hao Huang and Alexander Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.05262},
  year   = {2016}
}
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