Hadwigers Conjecture for inflations of 3-chromatic graphs

Hadwigers Conjecture states that every k-chromatic graph has a complete minor of order k. A graph G is an inflation of a graph G if G is obtained from G by replacing each vertex upsilon of G by a clique C-upsilon and joining two vertices of distinct cliques by an edge if and only if the corresponding vertices of G are adjacent. We present an algorithm for computing an upper bound on the chromatic number chi (G) of any inflation G of any 3-chromatic graph G. As a consequence, we deduce that Hadwigers Conjecture holds for any inflation of any 3-colorable graph. (C) 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Funding Agencies|SVeFUM; Mittag-Leffler Institute