Colouring squares of claw-free graphs
Combinatorics
2017-07-19 v3 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
Is there some absolute such that for any claw-free graph , the chromatic number of the square of satisfies , where is the clique number of ? Erd\H{o}s and Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il asked this question for the specific case of the line graph of a simple graph and this was answered in the affirmative by Molloy and Reed. We show that the answer to the more general question is also yes, and moreover that it essentially reduces to the original question of Erd\H{o}s and Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1609.08645,
title = {Colouring squares of claw-free graphs},
author = {Rémi de Joannis de Verclos and Ross J. Kang and Lucas Pastor},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1609.08645},
year = {2017}
}
Comments
19 pages; v2 corrects for a subtlety in the original derivation of Thm 1; v3 accepted to Canadian Journal of Mathematics