Reed's chromatic bound conjecture
Reed's chromatic bound conjecture
Let be a graph, with maximum degree and clique number . Reed's conjecture. Every graph satisfies
This refines the Borodin–Kostochka direction and is equivalent to a stronger interpolation between maximum degree and clique number. It remains open, although partial results establish related bounds with a smaller coefficient than the conjectured one.
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Primary source
Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi and Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta, “Coloring digraphs with Δ-b colors”, arXiv:2607.06928 (2026).
Additional references
11 papers in this index state this conjecture (2009–2026). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2507.10266, arXiv:1810.06704, arXiv:1803.01051, arXiv:1611.02063, arXiv:1404.6550, arXiv:1212.3036, arXiv:1211.1410, arXiv:1110.4896, arXiv:0907.1583, arXiv:0907.3705.
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