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Counterexamples to a conjecture on matching Kneser graphs

Combinatorics 2021-07-13 v1

Abstract

Let GG be a graph and rNr\in\mathbb{N}. The matching Kneser graph KG(G,rK2)\textsf{KG}(G, rK_2) is a graph whose vertex set is the set of rr-matchings in GG and two vertices are adjacent if their corresponding matchings are edge-disjoint. In [Alishahi, M. and Hajiabolhassan, H., On the Chromatic Number of Matching Kneser Graphs, Combin. Probab. and Comput. 29 (2020), no. 1, 1--21.] it was conjectured that for any connected graph GG and positive integer r2r\geq 2, the chromatic number of KG(G,rK2)\textsf{KG}(G, rK_2) is equal to E(G)ex(G,rK2)|E(G)|-\textsf{ex}(G,rK_2), where ex(G,rK2)\textsf{ex}(G,rK_2) denotes the largest number of edges in GG avoiding a matching of size rr. In this note, we show that the conjecture is not true for snarks.

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@article{arxiv.2107.04998,
  title  = {Counterexamples to a conjecture on matching Kneser graphs},
  author = {Moharram N. Iradmusa},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2107.04998},
  year   = {2021}
}

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