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Tight Chromatic Upper Bound for {3K1, C5}-free Graphs

Combinatorics 2013-10-02 v2

Abstract

Problem of finding an optimal upper bound for a chromatic no. of 3K1-free graphs is still open and pretty hard. Here we find a tight chromatic upper bound for {3K1, C5}-free graphs. We prove that if G is {3K1, C5}-free, then the chromatic no. <= (3{\omega}-1)/2 where {\omega} is the size of a maximum clique in G and show with examples that the bound is tight.

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@article{arxiv.1307.0307,
  title  = {Tight Chromatic Upper Bound for {3K1, C5}-free Graphs},
  author = {Medha Dhurandhar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1307.0307},
  year   = {2013}
}

Comments

This paper has been withdrawn by the author as there is an exception to the theory

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