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A Note on Hadwiger's Conjecture

Combinatorics 2013-04-25 v1

Abstract

Hadwiger's Conjecture states that every Kt+1K_{t+1}-minor-free graph is tt-colourable. It is widely considered to be one of the most important conjectures in graph theory. If every Kt+1K_{t+1}-minor-free graph has minimum degree at most δ\delta, then every Kt+1K_{t+1}-minor-free graph is (δ+1)(\delta+1)-colourable by a minimum-degree-greedy algorithm. The purpose of this note is to prove a slightly better upper bound.

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@article{arxiv.1304.6510,
  title  = {A Note on Hadwiger's Conjecture},
  author = {David R. Wood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1304.6510},
  year   = {2013}
}
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