{"title":"Graphs with girth 9 and without longer odd holes are 3-colourable","authors":"Yan Wang, Rong Wu","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23101","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>For a number <span></span><math>\n \n <mrow>\n <mi>l</mi>\n \n <mo>≥</mo>\n \n <mn>2</mn>\n </mrow></math>, let <span></span><math>\n \n <mrow>\n <msub>\n <mi>G</mi>\n \n <mi>l</mi>\n </msub>\n </mrow></math> denote the family of graphs which have girth <span></span><math>\n \n <mrow>\n <mn>2</mn>\n \n <mi>l</mi>\n \n <mo>+</mo>\n \n <mn>1</mn>\n </mrow></math> and have no odd hole with length greater than <span></span><math>\n \n <mrow>\n <mn>2</mn>\n \n <mi>l</mi>\n \n <mo>+</mo>\n \n <mn>1</mn>\n </mrow></math>. Wu, Xu and Xu conjectured that every graph in <span></span><math>\n \n <mrow>\n <msub>\n <mo>⋃</mo>\n \n <mrow>\n <mi>l</mi>\n \n <mo>≥</mo>\n \n <mn>2</mn>\n </mrow>\n </msub>\n \n <msub>\n <mi>G</mi>\n \n <mi>l</mi>\n </msub>\n </mrow></math> is 3-colourable. Chudnovsky et al., Wu et al., and Chen showed that every graph in <span></span><math>\n \n <mrow>\n <msub>\n <mi>G</mi>\n \n <mn>2</mn>\n </msub>\n </mrow></math>, <span></span><math>\n \n <mrow>\n <msub>\n <mi>G</mi>\n \n <mn>3</mn>\n </msub>\n </mrow></math> and <span></span><math>\n \n <mrow>\n <msub>\n <mo>⋃</mo>\n \n <mrow>\n <mi>l</mi>\n \n <mo>≥</mo>\n \n <mn>5</mn>\n </mrow>\n </msub>\n \n <msub>\n <mi>G</mi>\n \n <mi>l</mi>\n </msub>\n </mrow></math> is 3-colourable, respectively. In this paper, we prove that every graph in <span></span><math>\n \n <mrow>\n <msub>\n <mi>G</mi>\n \n <mn>4</mn>\n </msub>\n </mrow></math> is 3-colourable. This confirms Wu, Xu and Xu's conjecture.</p>","PeriodicalId":0,"journal":{"name":"","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"","FirstCategoryId":"100","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/jgt.23101","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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For a number , let denote the family of graphs which have girth and have no odd hole with length greater than . Wu, Xu and Xu conjectured that every graph in is 3-colourable. Chudnovsky et al., Wu et al., and Chen showed that every graph in , and is 3-colourable, respectively. In this paper, we prove that every graph in is 3-colourable. This confirms Wu, Xu and Xu's conjecture.