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On colorings of hypergraphs embeddable in $\mathbb{R}^d$

Combinatorics 2026-03-10 v3

Abstract

The (weak) chromatic number of a hypergraph HH, denoted by χ(H)\chi(H), is the smallest number of colors required to color the vertices of HH so that no hyperedge of HH is monochromatic. For every 2kd+12\le k\le d+1, denote by χL(k,d)\chi_L(k,d) (resp. χPL(k,d)\chi_{PL}(k,d)) the supremum supHχ(H)\sup_H \chi(H) where HH runs over all finite kk-uniform hypergraphs such that HH forms the collection of maximal faces of a simplicial complex that is linearly (resp. PL) embeddable in Rd\mathbb{R}^d. Following the program by Heise, Panagiotou, Pikhurko and Taraz, we improve their results as follows: For d3d \geq 3, we show that A. χL(k,d)=\chi_L(k,d)=\infty for all 2kd2\le k\le d, B. χPL(d+1,d)=\chi_{PL}(d+1,d)=\infty and C. χL(d+1,d)3\chi_L(d+1,d)\ge 3 for all odd d3d\ge 3. As an application, we extend the results by Lutz and M{\o}ller on the weak chromatic number of the ss-dimensional faces in the triangulations of a fixed triangulable dd-manifold MM: D. χs(M)=\chi_s(M)=\infty for 1sd1\leq s \leq d.

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@article{arxiv.2307.14195,
  title  = {On colorings of hypergraphs embeddable in $\mathbb{R}^d$},
  author = {Seunghun Lee and Eran Nevo},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.14195},
  year   = {2026}
}
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