English

Unique colorability and clique minors

Combinatorics 2015-08-07 v1

Abstract

For a graph G, let h(G) denote the largest k such that G has k pairwise disjoint pairwise adjacent connected nonempty subgraphs, and let s(G) denote the largest k such that G has k pairwise disjoint pairwise adjacent connected subgraphs of size 1 or 2. Hadwiger's conjecture states that h(G) is at least c(G), where c(G) is the chromatic number of G. Seymour conjectured that s(G) is at least |V(G)|/2 for all graphs without antitriangles, i. e. three pairwise nonadjacent vertices. Here we concentrate on graphs G with exactly one c(G)-coloring. We prove generalizations of (i) if c(G) is at most 6 and G has exactly one c(G)-coloring then h(G) is at least c(G), where the proof does not use the four-color-theorem, and (ii) if G has no antitriangles and G has exactly one c(G)-coloring then s(G) is at least |V(G)|/2.

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@article{arxiv.1508.01396,
  title  = {Unique colorability and clique minors},
  author = {Matthias Kriesell},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.01396},
  year   = {2015}
}
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