The Erdős-Lovász Tihany Conjecture for Quasi-Line Graphs

Authors

J. Balogh
A. V. Kostochka
N. Prince, Illinois Mathematics and Science AcademyFollow
M. Stiebitz

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2009

Disciplines

Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics | Mathematics

Abstract

Erdős and Lovász conjectured in 1968 that for every graph G with χ(G) > ω(G) and any two integers s, t ≥ 2 with s + t = χ(G) + 1, there is a partition (S,T) of the vertex set V(G) such that χ(G[S]) ≥ s and χ(G[T]) ≥ t . Except for a few cases, this conjecture is still unsolved. In this note we prove the conjecture for quasi-line graphs and for graphs with independence number 2.

Comments

At the time of publication, Noah Prince was affiliated with the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

Recommended Citation

Balogh, J., Kostochka, A.V., Prince, N., & Stiebitz, M. (2009). The Erdős-Lovász Tihany conjecture for quasi-line graphs. Discrete Mathematics, 309(12), 3985-3991.