Smaller counterexamples to Hedetniemi's conjecture
Abstract
Hedetniemi's conjecture~\cite{hedetniemi1966homomorphisms} for -colorings states that the tensor product is -colorable if and only if or is -colorable. El-Zahar and Sauer~\cite{El-ZaharS85} proved it for . In a recent breakthrough, Shitov~\cite{Shitov19} showed counterexamples, for large . While Shitov's proof is already remarkably short, Zhu \cite{Zhu20} simplified the argument and gave a more explicit counterexample for . Tardif \cite{Tardif20} showed that a modification of the arguments allows to use ``wide colorings'' to obtain counterexamples for , and with a more involved use of lexicographic products. This note presents two more small modifications, resulting in counterexamples for (with and having 4686 and 30 vertices, respectively).
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@article{arxiv.2012.13558,
title = {Smaller counterexamples to Hedetniemi's conjecture},
author = {Marcin Wrochna},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2012.13558},
year = {2020}
}