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Revisiting a theorem by Folkman on graph colouring

arXiv:1907.11429 · doi:10.37236/8899

Abstract

We give a short proof of the following theorem due to Jon H. Folkman (1969): The chromatic number of any graph is at most plus the maximum over all subgraphs of the difference between half the number of vertices and the independence number.

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