Meanings
alternative Hadwiger's conjecture
- graph theoryA conjecture regarding the relationship between the number of colors needed by a given graph and the size of its largest clique minor.
- geometryThe conjecture that at most 2n smaller homothetic bodies are necessary to contain any single given n-dimensional convex body.
Origin
Named after Hugo Hadwiger.
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