Illingworth, Freddie;
(2022)
The chromatic profile of locally bipartite graphs.
Journal of Combinatorial Theory, Series B
, 156
pp. 343-388.
10.1016/j.jctb.2022.05.006.
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Abstract
In 1973, Erdős and Simonovits asked whether every n-vertex triangle-free graph with minimum degree greater than 1/3⋅n is 3-colourable. This question initiated the study of the chromatic profile of triangle-free graphs: for each k, what minimum degree guarantees that a triangle-free graph is k-colourable. This problem has a rich history which culminated in its complete solution by Brandt and Thomassé. Much less is known about the chromatic profile of H-free graphs for general H. Triangle-free graphs are exactly those in which each neighbourhood is one-colourable. Locally bipartite graphs, first mentioned by Łuczak and Thomassé, are the natural variant of triangle-free graphs in which each neighbourhood is bipartite. Here we study the chromatic profile of locally bipartite graphs. We show that every n-vertex locally bipartite graph with minimum degree greater than 4/7⋅n is 3-colourable (4/7 is tight) and with minimum degree greater than 6/11⋅n is 4-colourable. Although the chromatic profiles of locally bipartite and triangle-free graphs bear some similarities, we will see there are striking differences.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | The chromatic profile of locally bipartite graphs |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
DOI: | 10.1016/j.jctb.2022.05.006 |
Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jctb.2022.05.006 |
Language: | English |
Additional information: | © 2022 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier Inc. This is an open access article under the CC BY license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
Keywords: | Science & Technology, Physical Sciences, Mathematics, Graph colouring, Extremal graph theory, TRIANGLE-FREE GRAPHS |
UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Maths and Physical Sciences > Dept of Mathematics |
URI: | https://discovery-pp.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10189638 |
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