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Coloring clique-hypergraph of $K_5$-minor-free graphs

Combinatorics 2014-08-22 v2

Abstract

A clique-coloring of a graph GG is a coloring of the vertices of GG so that no maximal clique of size at least two is monochromatic. The clique-hypergraph, H(G)\mathcal{H}(G), of a graph GG has V(G)V(G) as its set of vertices and the maximal cliques of GG as its hyperedges. A (vertex) coloring of H(G)\mathcal{H}(G) is a clique-coloring of GG. The clique-chromatic number of GG is the least number of colors for which GG admits a clique-coloring. Every planar graph has been proved to be 3-clique-colorable (Electr. J. Combin. 6 (1999), \#R26). Recently, we showed that every claw-free planar graph, different from an odd cycle, is 22-clique-colorable (European J. Combin. 36 (2014) 367-376). In this paper we generalize these results to \{claw, K5K_5-minor\}-free graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1408.3935,
  title  = {Coloring clique-hypergraph of $K_5$-minor-free graphs},
  author = {Erfang Shan and Yuxiao Sun and Liying Kang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1408.3935},
  year   = {2014}
}

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15 pages, 4 figures