D. Kang, T. Kelly, Daniela Kühn, Abhishek Methuku, D. Osthus
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Abstract
The Erdős-Faber-Lovász conjecture (posed in 1972) states that the chromatic index of any linear hypergraph on n vertices is at most n. In this paper, we prove this conjecture for every large n. We also provide stability versions of this result, which confirm a prediction of Kahn.
期刊介绍:
The Annals of Mathematics is published bimonthly by the Department of Mathematics at Princeton University with the cooperation of the Institute for Advanced Study. Founded in 1884 by Ormond Stone of the University of Virginia, the journal was transferred in 1899 to Harvard University, and in 1911 to Princeton University. Since 1933, the Annals has been edited jointly by Princeton University and the Institute for Advanced Study.