A short proof of Dirac's theorem on the number of edges in chromatically critical graphs

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  • W. A. Deuber
  • A. V. Kostochka
چکیده

A short proof is presented for a theorem of G. A. Dirac (1974) giving a lower bound for the number of edges of a k-critical graph on a given number of vertices and describing all non-complete k-critical graphs with minimum edge excess.

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تاریخ انتشار 1996