The Chromatic Number of a Graph with Two Odd Holes and an Odd Girth

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Kaiyang Lan
Feng Liu
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[1] Fuzhou University,Center for Discrete Mathematics
[2] East China Normal University,Department of Mathematics
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Graphs and Combinatorics | 2023年 / 39卷
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Chromatic number; Girth; Odd hole; 05C15; 05C38; 05C60;
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An odd hole is an induced odd cycle of length at least five. Let ℓ≥2\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\ell \ge 2$$\end{document} be an integer, and let Gℓ\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$${\mathcal {G}}_\ell $$\end{document} denote the family of graphs which have girth 2ℓ+1\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$2\ell + 1$$\end{document} and have no holes of odd length at least 2ℓ+5\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$2\ell +5$$\end{document}. In this paper, we prove that every graph G∈∪ℓ≥3Gℓ\documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$G \in \cup _{\ell \ge 3}{\mathcal {G}}_\ell $$\end{document} is 4-colourable.
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