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Separating Tree-chromatic number from Path-chromatic Number

Combinatorics 2019-02-01 v3

Abstract

We apply Ramsey theoretic tools to show that there is a family of graphs which have tree-chromatic number at most~22 while the path-chromatic number is unbounded. This resolves a problem posed by Seymour.

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@article{arxiv.1703.03973,
  title  = {Separating Tree-chromatic number from Path-chromatic Number},
  author = {Fidel Barrera-Cruz and Stefan Felsner and Tamás Mészáros and Piotr Micek and Heather Smith and Libby Taylor and William T. Trotter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1703.03973},
  year   = {2019}
}

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