Borel Polychromatic Number of Grids
Logic
2025-08-27 v1 Combinatorics
Abstract
We study Borel polychromatic colorings of grid graphs arising from free Borel actions of . A polychromatic coloring is one in which every unit -dimensional cube sees all available colors. In the classical setting, every grid admits a -polychromatic coloring, while in the Borel setting this fails. Our main result shows that every free -action admits a Borel -polychromatic coloring. This result is sharp: any action where the generators act ergodically does not admit a Borel -polychromatic coloring. We conclude with open directions for extending the theory beyond cube tilings and for exploring the dependence of Borel polychromatic numbers on the underlying action.
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@article{arxiv.2508.18559,
title = {Borel Polychromatic Number of Grids},
author = {Katalin Berlow and Edward Hou},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2508.18559},
year = {2025}
}
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13 pages, 3 figures