Asymptotics of the chromatic number for quasi-line graphs
Discrete Mathematics
2011-02-07 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms
Combinatorics
Abstract
As proved by Kahn, the chromatic number and fractional chromatic number of a line graph agree asymptotically. That is, for any line graph we have . We extend this result to quasi-line graphs, an important subclass of claw-free graphs. Furthermore we prove that we can construct a colouring that achieves this bound in polynomial time, giving us an asymptotic approximation algorithm for the chromatic number of quasi-line graphs.
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@article{arxiv.1102.0805,
title = {Asymptotics of the chromatic number for quasi-line graphs},
author = {Andrew D. King and Bruce Reed},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1102.0805},
year = {2011}
}
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20 pages, 2 figures