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Tight Chromatic Upper Bound for {3K1, K1+C4}-free Graphs

Combinatorics 2015-05-18 v2

Abstract

Problem of finding an optimal upper bound for the chromatic no. of 3K1-free graphs is still open and pretty hard. It was proved by Choudum et al that an upper bound on the chromatic no. of {3K1, K1+C4}-free graphs, is 2{\omega}. We improve this by proving that if G is {3K1, K1+C4}-free, then its chromatic no. is less than or equal to 3{\omega} divided by 2, where {\omega} is the size of a maximum clique in G. Also we give examples to show that this bound is tight.

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@article{arxiv.1407.4199,
  title  = {Tight Chromatic Upper Bound for {3K1, K1+C4}-free Graphs},
  author = {Medha Dhurandhar},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1407.4199},
  year   = {2015}
}

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