ArticleOriginal scientific text
Title
A clone-theoretic formulation of the Erdos-Faber-Lovász conjecture
Authors 1, 1
Affiliations
- Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, Royal Military College of Canada, PO Box 17000, Station "Forces", Kingston, Ontario K7K 7B4 Canada
Abstract
The Erdős-Faber-Lovász conjecture states that if a graph G is the union of n cliques of size n no two of which share more than one vertex, then χ(G) = n. We provide a formulation of this conjecture in terms of maximal partial clones of partial operations on a set.
Keywords
chromatic number, Erdős-Faber-Lovász conjecture, maximal partial clones
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Pages:
545-549
Main language of publication
English
Received
2004-07-12
Published
2004
DOI: 10.7151/dmgt.1252
Exact and natural sciences