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Subcubic triangle-free graphs have fractional chromatic number at most 14/5

Combinatorics 2017-05-17 v3 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

We prove that every subcubic triangle-free graph has fractional chromatic number at most 14/5, thus confirming a conjecture of Heckman and Thomas [A new proof of the independence ratio of triangle-free cubic graphs. Discrete Math. 233 (2001), 233--237].

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@article{arxiv.1301.5296,
  title  = {Subcubic triangle-free graphs have fractional chromatic number at most 14/5},
  author = {Zdeněk Dvořák and Jean-Sébastien Sereni and Jan Volec},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5296},
  year   = {2017}
}