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Counterexamples to a conjecture of Harris on Hall ratio

Combinatorics 2020-04-27 v4

Abstract

The Hall ratio of a graph GG is the maximum value of v(H)/α(H)v(H) / \alpha(H) taken over all non-null subgraphs HH of GG. For any graph, the Hall ratio is a lower-bound on its fractional chromatic number. In this note, we present various constructions of graphs whose fractional chromatic number grows much faster than their Hall ratio. This refutes a conjecture of Harris.

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@article{arxiv.1811.11116,
  title  = {Counterexamples to a conjecture of Harris on Hall ratio},
  author = {Adam Blumenthal and Bernard Lidicky and Ryan R. Martin and Sergey Norin and Florian Pfender and Jan Volec},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1811.11116},
  year   = {2020}
}