Woodall–Seymour bipartite minor conjecture

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Let GG be a finite simple graph, and let χ(G)\chi(G) denote its chromatic number. For positive integers ℓ\ell with ℓ<χ(G)\ell<\chi(G), let Kℓ,χ(G)−ℓK_{\ell,\chi(G)-\ell} be the complete bipartite graph with parts of those sizes. Woodall–Seymour's conjecture. Every graph GG contains Kℓ,χ(G)−ℓK_{\ell,\chi(G)-\ell} as a minor for any positive integer ℓ\ell with ℓ<χ(G)\ell<\chi(G). This is a weakening of Hadwiger's conjecture; the source presents it as a proposed variant, without stating its resolution.

References

Primary source

Rong Chen and Zijian Deng, “Odd complete bipartite minors in graphs with independence number two”, arXiv:2505.03851 (2025).

Additional references

3 papers in this index state this conjecture (2024–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2412.04522, arXiv:2406.02643.

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