Construct partition such that sum of chromatic numbers is greater than chromatic number of graph Sh

aligass2004yi

aligass2004yi

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2022-07-01

Construct partition such that sum of chromatic numbers is greater than chromatic number of graph
Show that for any undirected non-complete graph G there is a partition V ( G ) = V 1 V 2 such that χ ( G [ V 1 ] ) + χ ( G [ V 2 ] ) > χ ( G )
I managed to show that we can assume that every vertex x with non-full degree has degree atleast χ ( G ) 1 (otherwise, we may take V 1 = { x } and consider its neighbors), but then I get stuck. I also considered doing induction by taking the "almost-complete" non-complete graph (i.e. a complete graph with one edge removed) and removing edges, but I'm not sure what to do in the induction step. Any help would be appreciated.

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nuvolor8

nuvolor8

Beginner2022-07-02Added 32 answers

Step 1
Let v be a vertex with non-full degree. Take V 1 = { v } N ( v ) and V 2 = V ( G ) V 1 . Now notice that if we can color V 1 with k 1 colors and V 2 with k 2 colors then we can color G with k 1 + k 2 1 colors by coloring v with one of the colors of V 2 (this comes from the fact that v cannot have the same color with any of the other vertices in V 1 ).
Step 2
This gives us that χ ( G ) χ ( G [ V 1 ] ) + χ ( G [ V 2 ] ) 1 and we are done.

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