There are two main conjectures known as the Hadwiger conjecture or Hadwiger's conjecture:
- Hadwiger conjecture (graph theory), a relationship between the number of colors needed by a given graph and the size of its largest clique minor
- Hadwiger conjecture (combinatorial geometry) that for any n-dimensional convex body, at most 2n smaller homothetic bodies are necessary to contain the original
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