Chromatic Numbers of Small Paley Graphs
In each case, except 229, the chromatic number is determined by the
independence number, i.e., ω = ⌈ q / α ⌉.
Note that the last entry was done as a test. It turned out to be
an easy one because Paley(797) is the graph
that gives the current lower bound for the Ramsey number R(10,10), and thus
has a relatively small independence number (9).
| Prime Power | Independence Number | Chromatic Number |
| 5 | 2 | 3 |
| 13 | 3 | 5 |
| 17 | 3 | 6 |
| 29 | 4 | 8 |
| 37 | 4 | 10 |
| 41 | 5 | 9 |
| 53 | 5 | 11 |
| 61 | 5 | 13 |
| 73 | 5 | 15 |
| 89 | 5 | 18 |
| 97 | 6 | 17 |
| 101 | 5 | 21 |
| 109 | 6 | 19 |
| 113 | 7 | 17 |
| 137 | 7 | 20 |
| 149 | 7 | 22 |
| 157 | 7 | 23 |
| 173 | 8 | 22 |
| 181 | 7 | 26 |
| 193 | 7 | 28 |
| 197 | 8 | 25 |
| 229 | 9 | 26 or 27 |
| 233 | 7 | 34 |
| 241 | 7 | 35 |
| 257 | 7 | 37 |
| 269 | 8 | 34 |
| 277 | 8 | 35 |
| 281 | 7 | 41 |
| 293 | 8 | 37 |
| 313 | 8 | 40 |
| 317 | 9 | 36 |
| 797 | 9 | 89 |