Three-chromatic (0,2)-graphs

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Author(s): Payan, Charles
Subject: Graph Theory
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Posted by: Gordon Royle
on: September 7th, 2007
Question   Are there any (0,2)-graphs with chromatic number exactly three?

A (0,2)-graph is a graph such that every pair of distinct vertices has either 0 or 2 common neighbours. It is fairly easy to see that a (0,2)-graph is necessarily regular and a variety of other properties can be shown to hold. Although (0,2)-graphs with chromatic number 2, 4 and 5 are known it is open as to whether there can be any (0,2)-graphs with chromatic number exactly three.

Bibliography

*[P] Payan, Charles: On the chromatic number of cube-like graphs, Discrete Math. 103 (1992), no. 3, 271--277.


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Finite Three-Chromatic (0,2)-graphs

An infinite three-chromatic (0, 2)-graph is easy to construct. See Payan.

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