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 around each vertex are required to be -minor-free. We ask: if a graph is locally--minor-free, is it -colourable? We show that the answer is yes when , even in the stronger setting of list-colouring, and we complement this result with a -round distributed colouring algorithm in the LOCAL model. Further, we show that for large enough values of , we can list-colour locally--minor-free graphs with colours, where is any value such that all -minor-free graphs are -list-colourable. We again complement this with a -round distributed algorithm.
Cite
@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}
}
Comments
25 pages; published in JCTB