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Tightness of a MaxCut Lower Bound via Vector Chromatic Number

Combinatorics 2026-05-29 v1

Abstract

Recently, Balla, Janzer, and Sudakov showed a lower bound on the MaxCut in terms of the vector chromatic number, recovering known results on the MaxCut of HH-free graphs. In this note, we show that their bound is tight, providing a construction that achieves a value arbitrarily close to the optimal constant. This answers a question raised by Elphick. Our construction is a modification of the geometric graph used by Feige and Schechtman to establish the integrality gap for the Goemans--Williamson semidefinite relaxation of the MaxCut.

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@article{arxiv.2605.29176,
  title  = {Tightness of a MaxCut Lower Bound via Vector Chromatic Number},
  author = {Emanuel Juliano},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2605.29176},
  year   = {2026}
}

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