{ "id": "2408.13839", "version": "v1", "published": "2024-08-25T14:00:09.000Z", "updated": "2024-08-25T14:00:09.000Z", "title": "On a question of Erdős and Gimbel on the cochromatic number", "authors": [ "Annika Heckel" ], "comment": "4 pages", "categories": [ "math.CO" ], "abstract": "In this note, we show that the difference between the chromatic and the cochromatic number of the random graph $G_{n,1/2}$ is not whp bounded by $n^{1/2-o(1)}$, addressing a question of Erd\\H{o}s and Gimbel.", "revisions": [ { "version": "v1", "updated": "2024-08-25T14:00:09.000Z" } ], "analyses": { "subjects": [ "05C15", "05C80" ], "keywords": [ "cochromatic number", "random graph", "difference" ], "note": { "typesetting": "TeX", "pages": 4, "language": "en", "license": "arXiv", "status": "editable" } } }