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Restricted frame graphs and a conjecture of Scott
Scott proved in 1997 that for any tree , every graph with bounded clique
number which does not contain any subdivision of as an induced subgraph has
bounded chromatic number. Scott also conjectured that the same should hold if
is replaced by any graph . Pawlik et al. recently constructed a family
of triangle-free intersection graphs of segments in the plane with unbounded
chromatic number (thereby disproving an old conjecture of Erd\H{o}s). This
shows that Scott's conjecture is false whenever is obtained from a
non-planar graph by subdividing every edge at least once.
It remains interesting to decide which graphs satisfy Scott's conjecture
and which do not. In this paper, we study the construction of Pawlik et al. in
more details to extract more counterexamples to Scott's conjecture. For
example, we show that Scott's conjecture is false for any graph obtained from
by subdividing every edge at least once. We also prove that if is a
2-connected multigraph with no vertex contained in every cycle of , then any
graph obtained from by subdividing every edge at least twice is a
counterexample to Scott's conjecture.Comment: 21 pages, 8 figures - Revised version (note that we moved some of our
results to an appendix
S-Packing Colorings of Cubic Graphs
Given a non-decreasing sequence of positive
integers, an {\em -packing coloring} of a graph is a mapping from
to such that any two vertices with color
are at mutual distance greater than , . This paper
studies -packing colorings of (sub)cubic graphs. We prove that subcubic
graphs are -packing colorable and -packing
colorable. For subdivisions of subcubic graphs we derive sharper bounds, and we
provide an example of a cubic graph of order which is not
-packing colorable
On graphs with no induced subdivision of
We prove a decomposition theorem for graphs that do not contain a subdivision
of as an induced subgraph where is the complete graph on four
vertices. We obtain also a structure theorem for the class of graphs
that contain neither a subdivision of nor a wheel as an induced subgraph,
where a wheel is a cycle on at least four vertices together with a vertex that
has at least three neighbors on the cycle. Our structure theorem is used to
prove that every graph in is 3-colorable and entails a polynomial-time
recognition algorithm for membership in . As an intermediate result, we
prove a structure theorem for the graphs whose cycles are all chordless
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