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Reed's conjecture on some special classes of graphs

Discrete Mathematics 2012-10-30 v2

Abstract

Reed conjectured that for any graph GG, χ(G)ω(G)+Δ(G)+12\chi(G) \leq \lceil \frac{\omega(G)+\Delta(G)+1}{2}\rceil, where χ(G)\chi(G), ω(G)\omega(G), and Δ(G)\Delta(G) respectively denote the chromatic number, the clique number and the maximum degree of GG. In this paper, we verify this conjecture for some special classes of graphs, in particular for subclasses of P5P_5-free graphs or ChairChair-free graphs.

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@article{arxiv.1205.0730,
  title  = {Reed's conjecture on some special classes of graphs},
  author = {Jean-Luc Fouquet and Jean-Marie Vanherpe},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1205.0730},
  year   = {2012}
}

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