Randerath曾猜想每一个不含三角形和不含叉形图为导出子图的图是~3-可着色的.通过一个引理, 证明了该猜想在没有长为~4~的圈的图类上是成立的. 进而,
还证明了每一个不含三角形、不含~C_4~并且不含~C_{2,2,1,n}~作为导出子图的图是~(n+2)-可着色的, 这里~C_{2,2,1,n}~表示将图~E~的中心点和路~P_n~的一个端点连接而得到的阶为~(n+6)~的长把叉形图.
Randerath once conjectured that every triangle-free and fork-free graph is 3-colourable. By a lemma, the conjecture for C_4-free graphs was proved.Moreover, the result that every triangle-free, C_4-free and C_{2,2,1,n}-free graph is (n+2)-colourable was proved as well, where C_{2,2,1,n} is the long handled fork with order (n+6) obtained from E-graph and P_n by joining the center vertex of E and one endvertex of P_n.
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