Article
Keywords:
chromatic number; connected graph; colouring of a graph; $k$-chromatic graphs; independent set
Summary:
In this paper we characterize $k$-chromatic graphs without isolated vertices and connected $k$-chromatic graphs having a minimal number of edges.
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