Paper 3, Section II, F
(a) State Brooks' theorem concerning the chromatic number of a graph . Prove it in the case when is 3-connected.
[If you wish to assume that is regular, you should explain why this assumption is justified.]
(b) State Vizing's theorem concerning the edge-chromatic number of a graph .
(c) Are the following statements true or false? Justify your answers.
(1) If is a connected graph on more than two vertices then .
(2) For every ordering of the vertices of a graph , if we colour using the greedy algorithm (on this ordering) then the number of colours we use is at most .
(3) For every ordering of the edges of a graph , if we edge-colour using the greedy algorithm (on this ordering) then the number of colours we use is at most .