Tight bounds on the clique chromatic number
The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 28 (2021) no. 3
The clique chromatic number of a graph is the minimum number of colours needed to colour its vertices so that no inclusion-wise maximal clique which is not an isolated vertex is monochromatic. We show that every graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ has clique chromatic number $O\left(\frac{\Delta}{\log~\Delta}\right)$. We obtain as a corollary that every $n$-vertex graph has clique chromatic number $O\left(\sqrt{\frac{n}{\log ~n}}\right)$. Both these results are tight.
@article{10_37236_9659,
author = {Gwena\"el Joret and Piotr Micek and Bruce Reed and Michiel Smid},
title = {Tight bounds on the clique chromatic number},
journal = {The electronic journal of combinatorics},
year = {2021},
volume = {28},
number = {3},
doi = {10.37236/9659},
zbl = {1510.05075},
url = {http://geodesic.mathdoc.fr/articles/10.37236/9659/}
}
Gwenaël Joret; Piotr Micek; Bruce Reed; Michiel Smid. Tight bounds on the clique chromatic number. The electronic journal of combinatorics, Tome 28 (2021) no. 3. doi: 10.37236/9659
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