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Fractional colorings of partial $t$-trees with no large clique

Combinatorics 2023-12-19 v3

Abstract

Dvo\v{r}\'ak and Kawarabayashi [European Journal of Combinatorics, 2017] asked, what is the largest chromatic number attainable by a graph of treewidth tt with no KrK_r subgraph? In this paper, we consider the fractional version of this question. We prove that if GG has treewidth tt and clique number 2ωt2 \leq \omega \leq t, then χf(G)t+ω1t\chi_f(G) \leq t + \frac{\omega - 1}{t}, and we show that this bound is tight for ω=t\omega = t. We also show that for each value 0<c<120 < c < \frac{1}{2}, there exists a graph GG of a large treewidth tt and clique number ω=(1c)t\omega = \lfloor (1 - c)t \rfloor satisfying χf(G)t+1+12log(12c)+o(1)\chi_f(G) \geq t + 1 + \frac{1}{2}\log(1-2c) + o(1), which is approximately equal to the upper bound for small values cc.

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@article{arxiv.2302.09028,
  title  = {Fractional colorings of partial $t$-trees with no large clique},
  author = {Peter Bradshaw},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2302.09028},
  year   = {2023}
}

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