The two possible values of the chromatic number of a random graph

  • Authors:
  • Dimitris Achlioptas;Assaf Naor

  • Affiliations:
  • Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA;Microsoft Research, Redmond, WA

  • Venue:
  • STOC '04 Proceedings of the thirty-sixth annual ACM symposium on Theory of computing
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

For every d 0, let kd be the smallest integer k such that d d or kd+1 almost surely. If d ∈ (2k log k - log k, 2k log k) we further prove that the chromatic number almost surely equals k+1.