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Local Hadwiger's Conjecture

Combinatorics 2023-09-15 v3 Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

We propose local versions of Hadwiger's Conjecture, where only balls of radius Ω(log(v(G)))\Omega(\log(v(G))) around each vertex are required to be KtK_{t}-minor-free. We ask: if a graph is locally-KtK_{t}-minor-free, is it tt-colourable? We show that the answer is yes when t5t \leq 5, even in the stronger setting of list-colouring, and we complement this result with a O(logv(G))O(\log v(G))-round distributed colouring algorithm in the LOCAL model. Further, we show that for large enough values of tt, we can list-colour locally-KtK_{t}-minor-free graphs with 13max{h(t),312(t1)})13\cdot \max\left\{h(t),\left\lceil \frac{31}{2}(t-1) \right\rceil \right\})colours, where h(t)h(t) is any value such that all KtK_{t}-minor-free graphs are h(t)h(t)-list-colourable. We again complement this with a O(logv(G))O(\log v(G))-round distributed algorithm.

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@article{arxiv.2203.06718,
  title  = {Local Hadwiger's Conjecture},
  author = {Benjamin Moore and Luke Postle and Lise Turner},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2203.06718},
  year   = {2023}
}

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25 pages; published in JCTB

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