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On a recolouring version of Hadwiger's conjecture

Combinatorics 2025-03-14 v2 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We prove that for any ε>0\varepsilon>0, for any large enough tt, there is a graph GG that admits no KtK_t-minor but admits a (32ε)t(\frac32-\varepsilon)t-colouring that is "frozen" with respect to Kempe changes, i.e. any two colour classes induce a connected component. This disproves three conjectures of Las Vergnas and Meyniel from 1981.

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@article{arxiv.2103.10684,
  title  = {On a recolouring version of Hadwiger's conjecture},
  author = {Marthe Bonamy and Marc Heinrich and Clément Legrand-Duchesne and Jonathan Narboni},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2103.10684},
  year   = {2025}
}

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