Color-critical Graphs and Hereditary Hypergraphs [article]

András Sebő
2019 arXiv   pre-print
A quick proof of Gallai's celebrated theorem on color-critical graphs is given from Gallai's simple, ingenious lemma on factor-critical graphs, in terms of partitioning the vertex-set into a minimum number of hyperedges of a hereditary hypergraph, generalizing the chromatic number. We then show examples of applying the results to new problems and indicate the way to algorithms and refined complexity results for all these examples at the same time.
arXiv:1910.11302v1 fatcat:zjv764nrmvexhhtzdcxv7usr2m