Title
Immersing small complete graphs
Abstract
Following in the spirit of the Hadwiger and Hajos conjectures, Abu-Khzam and Langston have conjectured that every k-chromatic graph contains an immersion of K-k. They proved this for k <= 4. Much before that, Lescure and Meyniel [10] obtained a stronger result that included also the values k = 5 and 6, by proving that every simple graph of minimum degree k - 1 contains an immersion of K-k. They noted that they also have a proof of the same result for k = 7 but have not published it due to the length of the proof. We give a simple proof of this result. This, in particular, proves the conjecture of Abu-Khzam and Langston for every k <= 7.
Year
DOI
Venue
2010
10.26493/1855-3974.112.b74
ARS MATHEMATICA CONTEMPORANEA
Keywords
Field
DocType
Immersion,Hadwiger Conjecture
Graph theory,Hadwiger conjecture (graph theory),Graph,Combinatorics,Chromatic scale,Dirac (video compression format),Conjecture,Mathematics
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
3
2
1855-3966
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
9
0.65
10
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
matt devoss190.65
Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi21731149.16
Bojan Mohar31523192.05
haruko okamura490.65