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Local Hadwiger's Conjecture

(2203.06718)
Published Mar 13, 2022 in math.CO , cs.DC , and cs.DS

Abstract

We propose local versions of Hadwiger's Conjecture, where only balls of radius $\Omega(\log(v(G)))$ around each vertex are required to be $K{t}$-minor-free. We ask: if a graph is locally-$K{t}$-minor-free, is it $t$-colourable? We show that the answer is yes when $t \leq 5$, even in the stronger setting of list-colouring, and we complement this result with a $O(\log v(G))$-round distributed colouring algorithm in the LOCAL model. Further, we show that for large enough values of $t$, we can list-colour locally-$K{t}$-minor-free graphs with $13\cdot \max\left{h(t),\left\lceil \frac{31}{2}(t-1) \right\rceil \right})$colours, where $h(t)$ is any value such that all $K{t}$-minor-free graphs are $h(t)$-list-colourable. We again complement this with a $O(\log v(G))$-round distributed algorithm.

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