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Well-hued graphs with first difference two

Combinatorics 2025-06-06 v1

Abstract

A graph GG is said to be well-hued if every maximal kk-colorable subgraph of GG has the same order aka_k. Therefore, if GG is well-hued, we can associate with GG a sequence {ak}\{a_k\}. Necessary and sufficient conditions were given as to when a sequence {ak}\{a_k\} is realized by a well-hued graph. Further, it was conjectured there is only one connected well-hued graph with a2=a1+2a_2 = a_1 + 2 for every a14a_1 \ge 4. In this paper, we prove this conjecture as well as characterize nearly all well-hued graphs with a1=2a_1=2. We also investigate when both GG and its complement are well-hued.

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@article{arxiv.2506.04993,
  title  = {Well-hued graphs with first difference two},
  author = {Geoffrey Boyer and Kirsti Kuenzel and Jeremy Lyle and Ryan Pellico},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2506.04993},
  year   = {2025}
}
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