The character graph of a finite group is perfect

Abstract

For a finite group $G$, let $\Delta(G)$ denote the character graph built on the set of degrees of the irreducible complex characters of $G$. In graph theory, a perfect graph is a graph $\Gamma$ in which the chromatic number of every induced subgraph $\Delta$ of $\Gamma$ equals the clique number of $\Delta$. In this paper, we show that the character graph $\Delta(G)$ of a finite group $G$ is always a perfect graph. We also prove that the chromatic number of the complement of $\Delta(G)$ is at most three.