Disproof of the List Hadwiger Conjecture

نویسندگان

  • János Barát
  • Gwenaël Joret
  • David R. Wood
چکیده

The List Hadwiger Conjecture asserts that every Kt-minor-free graph is tchoosable. We disprove this conjecture by constructing a K3t+2-minor-free graph that is not 4t-choosable for every integer t ≥ 1.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Electr. J. Comb.

دوره 18  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011