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Polynomial bounds for chromatic number. I: excluding a biclique and an induced tree

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Let H be a tree. It was proved by Rodl that graphs that do not contain H as an induced subgraph, and do not contain the complete bipartite graph $K_{t,t}$ as a subgraph, have bounded chromatic number. Kierstead and Penrice strengthened this, showing that such graphs have bounded degeneracy. Here we give a further strengthening, proving that for every tree H, the degeneracy is at most polynomial in t. This answers a question of Bonamy, Pilipczuk, Rzazewski, Thomasse and Walczak.
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Published
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10.1002/jgt.22880

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Institution:
University of Oxford
Division:
MPLS
Department:
Mathematical Institute
Oxford college:
Merton College
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Author
ORCID:
0000-0003-4489-5988


Publisher:
Wiley
Journal:
Journal of Graph Theory More from this journal
Volume:
102
Issue:
3
Pages:
458-471
Publication date:
2022-09-07
Acceptance date:
2022-03-23
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EISSN:
1097-0118
ISSN:
0364-9024


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1174104
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pubs:1174104
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2022-04-21
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