A New Upper Bound on the Chromatic Number of Graphs with No Odd Kt Minor

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Gerards and Seymour conjectured that every graph with no odd Kt minor is (t − 1)-colorable. This is a strengthening of the famous Hadwiger’s Conjecture. Geelen et al. proved that every graph with no odd Kt minor is \(O(t\sqrt {\log t} )\)-colorable. Using the methods the present authors and Postle recently developed for coloring graphs with no Kt minor, we make the first improvement on this bound by showing that every graph with no odd Kt minor is O(t(logt)β)-colorable for every β > 1/4.