A counterexample to the Alon-Saks-Seymour conjecture and related problems

作者:Huang Hao*; Sudakov Benny
来源:Combinatorica, 2012, 32(2): 205-219.
DOI:10.1007/s00493-012-2746-4

摘要

Consider a graph obtained by taking an edge disjoint union of k complete bipartite graphs. Alon, Saks, and Seymour conjectured that such graphs have chromatic number at most k+1. This well known conjecture remained open for almost twenty years. In this paper, we construct a counterexample to this conjecture and discuss several related problems in combinatorial geometry and communication complexity.

  • 出版日期2012-3