Faudree–Gyárfás–Schelp–Tuza strong clique index conjecture

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For a finite simple graph GG, let L(G)L(G) denote its line graph, let G2G^2 denote the graph in which two vertices are adjacent exactly when they are at distance at most two in GG, let ω\omega denote clique number, and let Δ(G)\Delta(G) denote the maximum degree of GG. Faudree–Gyárfás–Schelp–Tuza conjecture. For any graph GG,

ω(L(G)2)54Δ(G)2.\omega(L(G)^2) \le \frac{5}{4}\Delta(G)^2.

This is a weaker counterpart to the Erdős–Nešetřil conjecture for the strong chromatic index. It is tight for blow-ups of C5C_5 and remains open; the best-known general upper bound stated in the paper is 43Δ(G)2\frac{4}{3}\Delta(G)^2.

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Primary source

Hitesh Kumar, Bojan Mohar and Shivaramakrishna Pragada, “An improved bound for the strong clique index of graphs”, arXiv:2607.02698 (2026).

Additional references

6 papers in this index state this conjecture (2014–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2011.02175, arXiv:1708.02264, arXiv:1508.03515, arXiv:1507.08959, arXiv:1412.2624.

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