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Further Progress towards the List and Odd Versions of Hadwiger's Conjecture

Combinatorics 2020-10-14 v1

Abstract

In 1943, Hadwiger conjectured that every graph with no KtK_t minor is (t1)(t-1)-colorable for every t1t\ge 1. In the 1980s, Kostochka and Thomason independently proved that every graph with no KtK_t minor has average degree O(tlogt)O(t\sqrt{\log t}) and hence is O(tlogt)O(t\sqrt{\log t})-colorable. Recently, Norin, Song and the author showed that every graph with no KtK_t minor is O(t(logt)β)O(t(\log t)^{\beta})-colorable for every β>1/4\beta > 1/4, making the first improvement on the order of magnitude of the O(tlogt)O(t\sqrt{\log t}) bound. Building on that work, we previously showed that every graph with no KtK_t minor is O(t(logt)β)O(t (\log t)^{\beta})-colorable for every β>0\beta > 0. More specifically, they are O(t(loglogt)6)O(t \cdot (\log \log t)^{6})-colorable. In this paper, we extend that work to the list and odd generalizations of Hadwiger's conjecture.

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@article{arxiv.2010.05999,
  title  = {Further Progress towards the List and Odd Versions of Hadwiger's Conjecture},
  author = {Luke Postle},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2010.05999},
  year   = {2020}
}

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