Subcubic triangle-free graphs have fractional chromatic number at most 14/5

Series
Graph Theory Seminar
Time
Thursday, February 21, 2013 - 12:05pm for 1 hour (actually 50 minutes)
Location
Skiles 005
Speaker
Zdenek Dvorak – Charles University and Georgia Tech
Organizer
Robin Thomas
Every subcubic triangle-free graph on n vertices contains an independent set of size at least 5n/14 (Staton'79). We strengthen this result by showing that all such graphs have fractional chromatic number at most 14/5, thus confirming a conjecture by Heckman and Thomas. (Joint work with J.-S. Sereni and J. Volec)