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A 2-coloring of a hypergraph is a mapping from its vertices to a set of two colors such that no edge is monochromatic. Let $H_k(n,m)$ be a random $k$-uniform hypergraph on $n$ vertices formed by picking $m$ edges uniformly, independently…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-11 Dimitris Achlioptas , Cristopher Moore

We introduce the notion of the { \it strong $(r,p)$ cover} number $\chi^c(G,k,r,p)$ for $k$-uniform hypergraphs $G(V,E)$, where $\chi^c(G,k,r,p)$ denotes the minimum number of $r$-colorings of vertices in $V$ such that each hyperedge in $E$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-07-19 Tapas Kumar Mishra , Sudebkumar Prasant Pal

We study the \emph{geometric $k$-colored crossing number} of complete graphs $\overline{\overline{\text{cr}}}_k(K_n)$, which is the smallest number of monochromatic crossings in any $k$-edge colored straight-line drawing of $K_n$. We…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-05-26 Benedikt Hahn , Bettina Klinz , Birgit Vogtenhuber

In 1973 P. Erd\H{o}s and L. Lov\'asz noticed that any hypergraph whose edges are pairwise intersecting has chromatic number 2 or 3. In the first case, such hypergraph may have any number of edges. However, Erd\H{o}s and Lov\'asz proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-11 D. D. Cherkashin , A. B. Kulikov , A. M. Raigorodskii

Let $H =(\mathcal{M} \cup \mathcal{J} ,E \cup \mathcal{E})$ be a hypergraph with two hypervertices $\mathcal{G}_1$ and $\mathcal{G}_2$ where $\mathcal{M} =\mathcal{G}_{1} \cup \mathcal{G}_{2}$ and $\mathcal{G}_{1} \cap \mathcal{G}_{2}…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-06-12 Wieslaw Kubiak

Given an $r$-uniform hypergraph $H=(V,E)$ and a weight function $\omega:E\to\{1,\dots,w\}$, a coloring of vertices of $H$, induced by $\omega$, is defined by $c(v) = \sum_{e\ni v} w(e)$ for all $v\in V$. If there exists such a coloring that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-12-11 Patrick Bennett , Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze , Laars Helenius

In [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 161 (2023), 109--119], the authors showed that the list-color function $P_l(G,k)$ of any simple graph $G$ of size $m$ coincides with its chromatic polynomial $P(G,k)$ for all integers $k\ge m-1$. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-11 Fengming Dong , Meiqiao Zhang

The $k$-colouring reconfiguration problem asks whether, for a given graph $G$, two proper $k$-colourings $\alpha$ and $\beta$ of $G$, and a positive integer $\ell$, there exists a sequence of at most $\ell+1$ proper $k$-colourings of $G$…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-10-30 Matthew Johnson , Dieter Kratsch , Stefan Kratsch , Viresh Patel , Daniël Paulusma

A $k\ell$-subset partition, or $(k,\ell)$-subpartition, is a $k\ell$-subset of an $n$-set that is partitioned into $\ell$ distinct classes, each of size $k$. Two $(k,\ell)$-subpartitions are said to $t$-intersect if they have at least $t$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-20 Adam Dyck , Karen Meagher

In this paper we study the minimal size of edges in hypergraph families that guarantees the existence of a polychromatic coloring, that is, a $k$-coloring of a vertex set such that every hyperedge contains a vertex of all $k$ color classes.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Balázs Bursics , Bence Csonka , Luca Szepessy

The Kneser hypergraph ${\rm KG}^r_{n,k}$ is an $r$-uniform hypergraph with vertex set consisting of all $k$-subsets of $\{1,\ldots,n\}$ and any collection of $r$ vertices forms an edge if their corresponding $k$-sets are pairwise disjoint.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-26 Meysam Alishahi , Ali Taherkhani

A hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ on $n$ vertices and $m$ edges is said to be {\it nearly-intersecting} if every edge of $\mathcal{H}$ intersects all but at most polylogarthmically many (in $m$ and $n$) other edges. Given lists of colors…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-04-05 Khaled Elbassioni

Recently, Alon introduced the notion of an $H$-code for a graph $H$: a collection of graphs on vertex set $[n]$ is an $H$-code if it contains no two members whose symmetric difference is isomorphic to $H$. Let $D_{H}(n)$ denote the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Patrick Bennett , Emily Heath , Shira Zerbib

For any given integer $r\geqslant 3$, let $k=k(n)$ be an integer with $r\leqslant k\leqslant n$. A hypergraph is $r$-uniform if each edge is a set of $r$ vertices, and is said to be linear if two edges intersect in at most one vertex. Let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-13 Fang Tian

Given a graph $F$ and an integer $r \ge 2$, a partition $\widehat{F}$ of the edge set of $F$ into at most $r$ classes, and a graph $G$, define $c_{r, \widehat{F}}(G)$ as the number of $r$-colorings of the edges of $G$ that do not contain a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-30 Fabricio S. Benevides , Carlos Hoppen , Rudini Menezes Sampaio

Given two graphs $G, H$ and a positive integer $q$, an $(H,q)$-coloring of $G$ is an edge-coloring of $G$ such that every copy of $H$ in $G$ receives at least $q$ distinct colors. The bipartite Erd\H{o}s-Gy\'{a}rf\'{a}s function $r(K_{n,n},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Xihe Li , Hajo Broersma , Ligong Wang

The classical Erd\H{o}s--Ko--Rado (EKR) theorem characterizes the maximum size of intersecting families of $r$-element subsets of an $n$-element set. We study EKR-type questions for independent $r$-sets in \emph{pendant} graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-28 Michael Carrion , Melissa M. Fuentes , Zaphenath Joseph , Alexander Nappo

We reprove the results on the hardness of approximating hypergraph coloring using a different technique based on bounds on the size of extremal $t$-agreeing families of $[q]^n$. Specifically, using theorems of Frankl-Tokushige [FT99],…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Per Austrin , Amey Bhangale , Aditya Potukuchi

We use an algebraic method to prove a degree version of the celebrated Erd\H os-Ko-Rado theorem: given $n>2k$, every intersecting $k$-uniform hypergraph $H$ on $n$ vertices contains a vertex that lies on at most $\binom{n-2}{k-2}$ edges.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Hao Huang , Yi Zhao

A $k$-uniform hypergraph (or $k$-graph) $H = (V, E)$ is $k$-partite if $V$ can be partitioned into $k$ sets $V_1, \ldots, V_k$ such that each edge in $E$ contains precisely one vertex from each $V_i$. We show that $k$-partite $k$-graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-25 Peter Bradshaw , Abhishek Dhawan , Nhi Dinh , Shlok Mulye , Rohan Rathi