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Fractional total colourings of graphs of high girth

Combinatorics 2010-09-30 v2

Abstract

Reed conjectured that for every epsilon>0 and Delta there exists g such that the fractional total chromatic number of a graph with maximum degree Delta and girth at least g is at most Delta+1+epsilon. We prove the conjecture for Delta=3 and for even Delta>=4 in the following stronger form: For each of these values of Delta, there exists g such that the fractional total chromatic number of any graph with maximum degree Delta and girth at least g is equal to Delta+1.

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@article{arxiv.0911.2808,
  title  = {Fractional total colourings of graphs of high girth},
  author = {Tomas Kaiser and Andrew King and Daniel Kral},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0911.2808},
  year   = {2010}
}