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On the chromatic number of a random hypergraph

Discrete Mathematics 2015-01-06 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

We consider the problem of kk-colouring a random rr-uniform hypergraph with nn vertices and cncn edges, where kk, rr, cc remain constant as nn tends to infinity. Achlioptas and Naor showed that the chromatic number of a random graph in this setting, the case r=2r=2, must have one of two easily computable values as nn tends to infinity. We give a complete generalisation of this result to random uniform hypergraphs.

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@article{arxiv.1208.0812,
  title  = {On the chromatic number of a random hypergraph},
  author = {Martin Dyer and Alan Frieze and Catherine Greenhill},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.0812},
  year   = {2015}
}

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45 pages, 2 figures, revised version

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