Don't know if this is a bug, but sage numerically disagrees with
a paper about strong product of graphs.

The paper is:
Strong products of Kneser graphs, Sandi Klavˇar and Uroˇ Milutinovi ́ 
at: http://www.fmf.uni-lj.si/~klavzar/preprints/Kneser.pdf

Let "*" denote the strong product.
p.4 theorem 1:
If G has at least one edge then
\chi (G * K_n) >= \chi(G) + 2n - 2

for G= C_4 and n = 3 the lower bound is 6.
In sage 5.4:
sage: C4=graphs.CycleGraph(4);K=graphs.CompleteGraph(3)
sage: G=C4.strong_product(K)
sage: G.chromatic_number()
5
sage: F=K.strong_product(C4)
sage: F.chromatic_number()
5

So sage's \chi is lower than the lower bound.

There is exact bound involving Kneser graph.

I implemented |strong_product| and don't get the same products as sage
(C_4 bound passed, the Kneser one didn't pass with my code).

What is the drama?

(Didn't audit sage's strong_product).

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