English

Every graph with no $\mathcal{K}_9^{-6}$ minor is $8$-colorable

Combinatorics 2022-10-06 v2

Abstract

For positive integers tt and ss, let Kts\mathcal{K}_t^{-s} denote the family of graphs obtained from the complete graph KtK_t by removing ss edges. A graph GG has no Kts\mathcal{K}_t^{-s} minor if it has no HH minor for every HKtsH\in \mathcal{K}_t^{-s}. Motivated by the famous Hadwiger's Conjecture, Jakobsen in 1971 proved that every graph with no K72\mathcal{K}_7^{-2} minor is 66-colorable; very recently the present authors proved that every graph with no K84\mathcal{K}_8^{-4} minor is 77-colorable. In this paper we continue our work and prove that every graph with no K96\mathcal{K}_9^{-6} minor is 88-colorable. Our result implies that HH-Hadwiger's Conjecture, suggested by Paul Seymour in 2017, is true for all graphs HH on nine vertices such that HH is a subgraph of every graph in K96 \mathcal{K}_9^{-6}.

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@article{arxiv.2209.05259,
  title  = {Every graph with no $\mathcal{K}_9^{-6}$ minor is $8$-colorable},
  author = {Michael Lafferty and Zi-Xia Song},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.05259},
  year   = {2022}
}

Comments

arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2208.07338

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