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Coloring Graphs with no Totally Odd Clique Immersion

Published: August 11, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2508.08119v1

By: Caleb McFarland

Potential Business Impact:

Colors graphs with no special pattern.

We prove that graphs that do not contain a totally odd immersion of $K_t$ are $\mathcal{O}(t)$-colorable. In particular, we show that any graph with no totally odd immersion of $K_t$ is the union of a bipartite graph and a graph which forbids an immersion of $K_{\mathcal{O}(t)}$. Our results are algorithmic, and we give a fixed-parameter tractable algorithm (in $t$) to find such a decomposition.

Page Count
11 pages

Category
Mathematics:
Combinatorics