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Coloring triangle-free L-graphs with $O(\log\log n)$ colors

Combinatorics 2020-02-26 v1 Computational Geometry Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

It is proved that triangle-free intersection graphs of nn L-shapes in the plane have chromatic number O(loglogn)O(\log\log n). This improves the previous bound of O(logn)O(\log n) (McGuinness, 1996) and matches the known lower bound construction (Pawlik et al., 2013).

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@article{arxiv.2002.10755,
  title  = {Coloring triangle-free L-graphs with $O(\log\log n)$ colors},
  author = {Bartosz Walczak},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.10755},
  year   = {2020}
}
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