On the Linear Intersection Number of Graphs

نویسندگان

  • Hauke Klein
  • Marian Margraf
چکیده

The celebrated Erdös, Faber and Lovász Conjecture may be stated as follows: Any linear hypergraph on v points has chromatic index at most v. We will introduce the linear intersection number of a graph, and use this number to give an alternative formulation of the Erdös, Faber, Lovász conjecture. Finally, first results about the linear intersection number will be proved. For example, the definition of the linear intersection number immediately yields an easy upper bound, and we determine all graphs for which this bound is sharp. AMS Classification 05C15, 05C65, 51E14

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تاریخ انتشار 2003