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The fractional chromatic number of triangle-free subcubic graphs

Combinatorics 2013-05-02 v3

Abstract

Heckman and Thomas conjectured that the fractional chromatic number of any triangle-free subcubic graph is at most 14/5. Improving on estimates of Hatami and Zhu and of Lu and Peng, we prove that the fractional chromatic number of any triangle-free subcubic graph is at most 32/11 (which is roughly 2.909).

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@article{arxiv.1203.1308,
  title  = {The fractional chromatic number of triangle-free subcubic graphs},
  author = {David Ferguson and Tomáš Kaiser and Daniel Král'},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1203.1308},
  year   = {2013}
}