Fractionally colouring $P_5$-free graphs

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Autore principale: Nguyen, Tung H.
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contents We obtain some $d\ge2$ such that every graph $G$ with no induced copy of the five-vertex path $P_5$ has at most $α(G)ω(G)^d$ vertices. This ``off-diagonal Ramsey'' statement implies that every such graph $G$ has fractional chromatic number at most $ω(G)^d$, and is another step towards the polynomial Gyárfás-Sumner conjecture for $P_5$. The proof uses the recent Erdős-Hajnal result for $P_5$ and adapts a decomposition argument for $P_5$-free graphs developed by the author in an earlier paper.
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spellingShingle Fractionally colouring $P_5$-free graphs
Nguyen, Tung H.
Combinatorics
05C35, 05C55, 05C69, 05C72
We obtain some $d\ge2$ such that every graph $G$ with no induced copy of the five-vertex path $P_5$ has at most $α(G)ω(G)^d$ vertices. This ``off-diagonal Ramsey'' statement implies that every such graph $G$ has fractional chromatic number at most $ω(G)^d$, and is another step towards the polynomial Gyárfás-Sumner conjecture for $P_5$. The proof uses the recent Erdős-Hajnal result for $P_5$ and adapts a decomposition argument for $P_5$-free graphs developed by the author in an earlier paper.
title Fractionally colouring $P_5$-free graphs
topic Combinatorics
05C35, 05C55, 05C69, 05C72
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.05724