Strong Hadwiger's conjecture

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Let GG be a graph with chromatic number [?][?]{} and let SV(G)S\subseteq V(G) be colorful if every proper χ(G)\chi(G)-coloring of GG assigns all χ(G)\chi(G) colors to vertices in SS. An SS-rooted KtK_t-minor is a model (Bi)i=1t(B_i)_{i=1}^{t} of KtK_t in GG such that BiSB_i\cap S\neq\emptyset for every i[t]i\in[t]. Strong Hadwiger's conjecture. If GG is a graph with χ(G)=t\chi(G)=t and SS is a colorful set in GG, then GG contains an SS-rooted KtK_t-minor. This strengthens Hadwiger's conjecture by requiring the complete minor to meet a prescribed set that is hard to avoid in every optimal coloring; its status is not resolved in the supplied source.

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Anders Martinsson and Raphael Steiner, “Strengthening Hadwiger's conjecture for 4- and 5-chromatic graphs”, arXiv:2209.00594 (2022).

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