On a recolouring version of Hadwiger's conjecture
Combinatorics
2025-03-14 v2 Discrete Mathematics
Abstract
We prove that for any , for any large enough , there is a graph that admits no -minor but admits a -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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5 pages