Article ID Journal Published Year Pages File Type
5776989 Discrete Mathematics 2017 9 Pages PDF
Abstract
Then, we study the class of all graphs with independence number less than three, which are graphs of interest for Hadwiger's Conjecture. We study such graphs for the immersion-analog. If Abu-Khzam and Langston's conjecture is true for this class of graphs, then an easy argument shows that every graph of independence number less than 3 contains Kn2 as an immersion. We show that the converse is also true. That is, if every graph with independence number less than 3 contains an immersion of Kn2, then Abu-Khzam and Langston's conjecture is true for this class of graphs. Furthermore, we show that every graph of independence number less than 3 has an immersion of Kn3.
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Physical Sciences and Engineering Mathematics Discrete Mathematics and Combinatorics
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