Bounds for mean colour numbers of graphs
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چکیده
Let mðGÞ denote the mean colour number of a graph G: Mosca discovered some counterexamples which disproved a conjecture proposed by Bartels and Welsh that if H is a subgraph of G; then mðHÞpmðGÞ: In this paper, we show that this conjecture holds under the condition that either G is a chordal graph or H is a graph which can be obtained from a tree by replacing a vertex by a clique. This result gives a method to find upper bounds and lower bounds for the mean colour number of any graph. We also prove that mðGÞomðG,K1Þ for an arbitrary graph G: r 2002 Elsevier Science (USA). All rights reserved.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- J. Comb. Theory, Ser. B
دوره 87 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2003