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Chromatic and achromatic numbers of unitary addition Cayley graphs

Combinatorics 2025-04-29 v3

Abstract

Let RR be a ring. The unitary addition Cayley graph of RR, denoted U(R)\mathcal{U}(R), is the graph with vertex RR, and two distinct vertices xx and yy are adjacent if and only if x+yx+y is a unit. We determine a formula for the clique number and chromatic number of such graphs when RR is a finite commutative ring with an odd number of elements. This includes the special case when RR is Zn\mathbb{Z}_n, the integers modulo nn, where these parameters had been found under the assumption that nn is even, or nn is a power of an odd prime. Additionally, we study the achromatic number of U(Zn)\mathcal{U}( \mathbb{Z}_n ) in the case that nn is the product of two primes. We prove that the achromatic number of U(Z3q)\mathcal{U} ( \mathbb{Z}_{3q}) is equal to 3q+12\frac{3q+1}{2} when q>3q > 3 is a prime. We also prove a lower bound that applies when n=pqn = pq where pp and qq are distinct odd primes.

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@article{arxiv.2407.10364,
  title  = {Chromatic and achromatic numbers of unitary addition Cayley graphs},
  author = {Keenan Calhoun and Yeşim Demiroğlu Karabulut and Vincent Pigno and Craig Timmons},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2407.10364},
  year   = {2025}
}