Strengthening Hadwiger's conjecture for $4$- and $5$-chromatic graphs
Combinatorics
2022-09-02 v1
Abstract
Hadwiger's famous coloring conjecture states that every -chromatic graph contains a -minor. Holroyd [Bull. London Math. Soc. 29, (1997), pp. 139--144] conjectured the following strengthening of Hadwiger's conjecture: If is a -chromatic graph and takes all colors in every -coloring of , then contains a -minor rooted at . We prove this conjecture in the first open case of . Notably, our result also directly implies a stronger version of Hadwiger's conjecture for -chromatic graphs as follows: Every -chromatic graph contains a -minor with a singleton branch-set. In fact, in a -vertex-critical graph we may specify the singleton branch-set to be any vertex of the graph.
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@article{arxiv.2209.00594,
title = {Strengthening Hadwiger's conjecture for $4$- and $5$-chromatic graphs},
author = {Anders Martinsson and Raphael Steiner},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2209.00594},
year = {2022}
}
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