Harris's fractional chromatic number conjecture for triangle-free degenerate graphs

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Let GG be a graph, and let dd be a nonnegative integer such that GG is dd-degenerate, meaning that every subgraph of GG has a vertex of degree at most dd. Let △\triangle-free mean containing no copy of the triangle, and let χf(G)\chi_f(G) denote the fractional chromatic number of GG. Harris's conjecture. If GG is dd-degenerate and triangle-free, then

χf(G)=O(dlog⁡d).\chi_f(G)=O\left(\frac{d}{\log d}\right).

The conjecture predicts a logarithmic improvement over the general degeneracy bound for fractional chromatic number; the paper presents results toward it and later states that it has been resolved, so the conjecture itself is no longer open.

References

Primary source

Anders Martinsson, “Triangle-free d-degenerate graphs have small fractional chromatic number”, arXiv:2501.18238 (2025).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2018–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:1811.11116.

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