Bulletin of Pure & Applied Sciences- Mathematics and Statistics
  • Year: 2010
  • Volume: 29e
  • Issue: 2

Double-critical k-chromatic graphs

  • Author:
  • M. Basheer Ahamed, I. Bagyam
  • Total Page Count: 3
  • Page Number: 409 to 411

Department of Mathematics, Karunya University, Coimbatore-641114, INDIA

Mathematics subject classification 2010: 05C15

Abstract

A long-standing conjecture due to Erdos [2] states that the complete graphs are the only double-critical graphs, which is referred as the double-critical graph conjecture. In this paper, we prove the double-critical graph conjecture for k > 5.

Keywords

Complete graph, Degree, Chromatic number, Vertex critical, Double-critical graph