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Colouring t-perfect graphs

Combinatorics 2024-12-24 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Perfect graphs can be described as the graphs whose stable set polytopes are defined by their non-negativity and clique inequalities (including edge inequalities). In 1975, Chv\'{a}tal defined an analogous class of t-perfect graphs, which are the graphs whose stable set polytopes are defined by their non-negativity, edge inequalities, and odd circuit inequalities. We show that t-perfect graphs are 199053199053-colourable. This is the first finite bound on the chromatic number of t-perfect graphs and answers a question of Shepherd from 1995. Our proof also shows that every h-perfect graph with clique number ω\omega is (ω+199050)(\omega + 199050)-colourable.

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@article{arxiv.2412.17735,
  title  = {Colouring t-perfect graphs},
  author = {Maria Chudnovsky and Linda Cook and James Davies and Sang-il Oum and Jane Tan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2412.17735},
  year   = {2024}
}

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23 pages, 4 figures

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