• Title of article

    Ollivier’s Ricci curvature and the coloring of graphs

  • Author/Authors

    Cho، نويسنده , , Hee Je and Paeng، نويسنده , , Seong-Hun، نويسنده ,

  • Issue Information
    روزنامه با شماره پیاپی سال 2013
  • Pages
    7
  • From page
    916
  • To page
    922
  • Abstract
    We obtain lower bounds on the clique number and chromatic number for finite simple graphs using Ollivier’s Ricci curvature. Also we study the relations between girth and curvature. From these, we obtain curvature conditions for 3-colorability of a planar graph.
  • Journal title
    European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Serial Year
    2013
  • Journal title
    European Journal of Combinatorics
  • Record number

    1549186