Immersion containment and connectivity in color-critical graphsArticle
Authors: Faisal N. Abu-Khzam 1; Michael A. Langston 2
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Faisal N. Abu-Khzam;Michael A. Langston
1 Department of Computer Science and Mathematics [Lebanese American University]
2 Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science [Knoxville]
The relationship between graph coloring and the immersion order is considered. Vertex connectivity, edge connectivity and related issues are explored. It is shown that a t-chromatic graph G contains either an immersed Kt or an immersed t-chromatic subgraph that is both 4-vertex-connected and t-edge-connected. This gives supporting evidence of our conjecture that if G requires at least t colors, then Kt is immersed in G.
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