Erdős–Lovász double-critical graph conjecture

Let GG be a connected graph with chromatic number tt. It is double-critical if for every edge xyE(G)xy\in E(G), the graph G\{x,y}G\backslash\{x,y\} is (t2)(t-2)-colorable. The complete graphs are double-critical. Erdős–Lovász double-critical graph conjecture. If GG is a double-critical, tt-chromatic graph, then

G=Kt.G=K_t.

Complete graphs are the only known examples of double-critical graphs. The conjecture has been verified for t5t\le 5 and remains open for t6t\ge 6.

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Primary source

Martin Rolek and Zi-Xia Song, “Double-critical graph conjecture for claw-free graphs”, arXiv:1610.00636 (2017).

Additional references

4 papers in this index state this conjecture (2010–2016). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1604.05262, arXiv:1603.06964, arXiv:1007.5400.

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