Seymour and Woodall's conjecture holds for graphs with independence number two
Combinatorics
2025-02-20 v3
Abstract
Woodall (and Seymour independently) in 2001 proposed a conjecture that every graph contains every complete bipartite graph on vertices as a minor, where is the chromatic number of . In this paper, we prove that for each positive integer with , each graph with independence number two contains a -minor, implying that Seymour and Woodall's conjecture holds for graphs with independence number two, where is the graph obtained from by making every pair of vertices on the side of the bipartition of size adjacent.
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@article{arxiv.2406.02643,
title = {Seymour and Woodall's conjecture holds for graphs with independence number two},
author = {Rong Chen and Zijian Deng},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.02643},
year = {2025}
}