The Weak Version of the Graph Complement Conjecture and Partial Results for the Delta Conjecture

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Main Authors: Barioli, Francesco, Fallat, Shaun M., Gupta, Himanshu, Li, Zhongshan
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Published: 2025
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author Barioli, Francesco
Fallat, Shaun M.
Gupta, Himanshu
Li, Zhongshan
author_facet Barioli, Francesco
Fallat, Shaun M.
Gupta, Himanshu
Li, Zhongshan
contents Since the transformative workshop by the American Institute of Mathematics on the minimum rank of a graph, two longstanding open problems have captivated the community interested in the minimum rank of graphs: the graph complement conjecture and the $δ$-conjecture. In this paper, we use a classical result of Mader (1972) to establish a weak version of the graph complement conjecture for all key minimum rank parameters. In addition, again using the same result of Mader, we present some extremal resolutions of the $δ$-conjecture. Furthermore, we incorporate the assumption of the $δ$-conjecture and extensive work on graph degeneracy to improve the bound in the weak version of the graph complement conjecture. We conclude with a list of conjectured bounds on the positive semidefinite variant of the Colin de Verdière number.
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spellingShingle The Weak Version of the Graph Complement Conjecture and Partial Results for the Delta Conjecture
Barioli, Francesco
Fallat, Shaun M.
Gupta, Himanshu
Li, Zhongshan
Combinatorics
05C50, 15A03, 05C35
Since the transformative workshop by the American Institute of Mathematics on the minimum rank of a graph, two longstanding open problems have captivated the community interested in the minimum rank of graphs: the graph complement conjecture and the $δ$-conjecture. In this paper, we use a classical result of Mader (1972) to establish a weak version of the graph complement conjecture for all key minimum rank parameters. In addition, again using the same result of Mader, we present some extremal resolutions of the $δ$-conjecture. Furthermore, we incorporate the assumption of the $δ$-conjecture and extensive work on graph degeneracy to improve the bound in the weak version of the graph complement conjecture. We conclude with a list of conjectured bounds on the positive semidefinite variant of the Colin de Verdière number.
title The Weak Version of the Graph Complement Conjecture and Partial Results for the Delta Conjecture
topic Combinatorics
05C50, 15A03, 05C35
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2505.24577