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Chromatic number, Clique number, and Lov\'{a}sz's bound: In a comparison

Combinatorics 2017-09-22 v1

Abstract

In the way of proving Kneser's conjecture, L\'{a}szl\'{o} Lov\'{a}sz settled out a new lower bound for the chromatic number. He showed that if neighborhood complex N(G)\mathcal{N}(G) of a graph GG is topologically kk-connected, then its chromatic number is at least k+3k+3. Then he completed his proof by showing that this bound is tight for the Kneser graph. However, there are some graphs where this bound is not useful at all, even comparing by the obvious bound; the clique number. For instance, if a graph contains no complete bipartite graph Kl,m\mathcal{K}_{l, m}, then its Lov\'{a}sz's bound is at most l+m1l+m-1. But, it can have an arbitrarily large chromatic number. In this note, we present new graphs showing that the gaps between the chromatic number, the clique number, and the Lov\'{a}sz bound can be arbitrarily large. More precisely, for given positive integers l,ml, m and 2pq2\leq p\leq q, we construct a connected graph which contains a copy of Kl,m\mathcal{K}_{l,m}, and its chromatic number, clique number, and Lov\'{a}sz's bound are qq, pp, and 33, respectively.

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@article{arxiv.1709.07159,
  title  = {Chromatic number, Clique number, and Lov\'{a}sz's bound: In a comparison},
  author = {Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1709.07159},
  year   = {2017}
}