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Conference Papers Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science Year : 2005

An upper bound for the chromatic number of line graphs

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It was conjectured by Reed [reed98conjecture] that for any graph $G$, the graph's chromatic number $χ (G)$ is bounded above by $\lceil Δ (G) +1 + ω (G) / 2\rceil$ , where $Δ (G)$ and $ω (G)$ are the maximum degree and clique number of $G$, respectively. In this paper we prove that this bound holds if $G$ is the line graph of a multigraph. The proof yields a polynomial time algorithm that takes a line graph $G$ and produces a colouring that achieves our bound.
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hal-01184357 , version 1 (14-08-2015)

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Andrew D. King, Bruce A. Reed, Adrian R. Vetta. An upper bound for the chromatic number of line graphs. 2005 European Conference on Combinatorics, Graph Theory and Applications (EuroComb '05), 2005, Berlin, Germany. pp.151-156, ⟨10.46298/dmtcs.3401⟩. ⟨hal-01184357⟩

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