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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 23(2) (2003) 333-363
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7151/dmgt.1206

ON A SPECIAL CASE OF HADWIGER'S CONJECTURE

Michael D. Plummer

Department of Mathematics
Vanderbilt University
Nashville, Tennessee 37240, USA
e-mail: michael.d.plummer@vanderbilt.edu

Michael Stiebitz1

Institute of Mathematics
TU Ilmenau, D-98684 Ilmenau, Germany
e-mail: stieb@mathematik.tu-ilmenau.de

Bjarne Toft2

Department of Mathematics and Computer Science
University of Southern Denmark
Campusvej 55, DK-5230 Odense M, Denmark
e-mail: btoft@imada.sdu.dk

Abstract

Hadwiger's Conjecture seems difficult to attack, even in the very special case of graphs G of independence number α (G) = 2. We present some results in this special case.

Keywords: Hadwiger's Conjecture, complete minor, independence number, connected matching.

2000 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C15, 05C83.

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Received 29 September 2001
Revised 13 May 2002


Footnotes:

1Work supported by INTAS (project code 97-1001).
2Work supported by the Danish Natural Science Research Council.


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