Borodin-Kostochka conjecture and Partitioning a graph into classes with no clique of specified size
Abstract
For a given graph and the graphical properties , a graph is said to be -partitionable if there exists a partition of into -sets , such that for each , the subgraph induced by has the property . In , Bollob\'{a}s and Manvel showed that for a graph with maximum degree and clique number , if , then there exists a -partition of , such that , , is -degenerate, and is -degenerate. Assume that are positive integers and . Assume that for each the properties means that . Is a -partitionable graph? In 1977, Borodin and Kostochka conjectured that any graph with maximum degree and without as a subgraph, has chromatic number at most . Reed proved that the conjecture holds whenever . When and , the above question is the Borodin and Kostochka conjecture. Therefore, when all s are equal to and , the answer to the above question is negative. Let is a graph with maximum degree , and clique number , where . In this article, we intend to study this question when and . In particular as an analogue of the Borodin-Kostochka conjecture, for the case that and we prove that the above question is true.
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@article{arxiv.2311.08772,
title = {Borodin-Kostochka conjecture and Partitioning a graph into classes with no clique of specified size},
author = {Yaser Rowshan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2311.08772},
year = {2023}
}