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Let r, s >= 2 be integers. Suppose that the number of blue r-cliques in a red/blue coloring of the edges of the complete graph K_n is known and fixed. What is the largest possible number of red s-cliques under this assumption? The well…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-10 Hao Huang , Nati Linial , Humberto Naves , Yuval Peled , Benny Sudakov

In the way of proving Kneser's conjecture, L\'{a}szl\'{o} Lov\'{a}sz settled out a new lower bound for the chromatic number. He showed that if neighborhood complex $\mathcal{N}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is topologically $k$-connected, then its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh

We prove that the chromatic number of a circle graph with clique number $\omega$ is at most $7\omega^2$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-30 James Davies , Rose McCarty

This paper serves as the first extension of the topic of dominator colorings of graphs to the setting of digraphs. We establish the dominator chromatic number over all possible orientations of paths and cycles. In this endeavor we discover…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-21 Michael Cary

An $(m, n)$-colored mixed graph is a graph having arcs of $m$ different colors and edges of $n$ different colors. A graph homomorphism of an $(m, n$)-colored mixed graph $G$ to an $(m, n)$-colored mixed graph $H$ is a vertex mapping such…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-15 Sandip Das , Soumen Nandi , Debdeep Roy , Sagnik Sen

In this work, we give the sharp upper bound for the number of cliques in graphs with bounded odd circumferences. This generalized Tur\'an-type result is an extension of the celebrated Erd\H{o}s and Gallai theorem and a strengthening of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-07 Zequn Lv , Ervin Győri , Zhen He , Nika Salia , Chuanqi Xiao , Xiutao Zhu

Clique-width is one of the graph complexity measures leading to polynomial special-case algorithms for generally NP-complete problems, e.g. graph colourability. The best two currently known algorithms for verifying c-colourability of graphs…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-08-13 Bruno Courcelle , Irène Durand , Michael Raskin

We study classes of graphs with bounded clique-width that are well-quasi-ordered by the induced subgraph relation, in the presence of labels on the vertices. We prove that, given a finite presentation of a class of graphs, one can decide…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Maël Dumas , Aliaume Lopez

Let $ H = (V,E) $ be a hypergraph. By the chromatic number of a hypergraph $ H = (V,E) $ we mean the minimum number $\chi(H)$ of colors needed to paint all the vertices in $ V $ so that any edge $ e \in E $ contains at least two vertices of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-07-12 Danila D. Cherkashin

In this paper, we are interested in some problems related to chromatic number and clique number for the class of $(P_5,K_5-e)$-free graphs, and prove the following. $(a)$ If $G$ is a connected ($P_5,K_5-e$)-free graph with $\omega(G)\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-17 Arnab Char , T. Karthick

Let $Q(n,c)$ denote the minimum clique number over graphs with $n$ vertices and chromatic number $c$. We determine the rate of growth of of the sequence ${Q(n,\lceil rn \rceil)}_{n=1}^\infty$ for any fixed $0<r\leq 1$. We also give a better…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-02-04 Csaba Biró , Kris Wease

This paper proposes a new algorithm for solving maximal cliques for simple undirected graphs using the theory of prime numbers. A novel approach using prime numbers is used to find cliques and ends with a discussion of the algorithm.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Dhananjay D. Kulkarni , Shekhar Verma , Prashant

In this paper, we present the lower bounds for the number of vertices in a graph with a large chromatic number containing no small odd cycles.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-06 Sergey L. Berlov , Ilya I. Bogdanov

We systematically determine circular chromatic index of small graphs and multigraphs with maximum degree $4$, $5$, $6$ (and also their number for a given small order). We construct several infinite families of such graphs with circular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Ján Mazák , Filip Zrubák

The main goal of this paper is to formalize and explore a connection between chromatic properties of graphs with geometric representations and competitive analysis of on-line algorithms, which became apparent after the recent construction…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Tomasz Krawczyk , Bartosz Walczak

Graph colorings have been of interest to mathematicians for a long time, but relatively recently, social scientists have also found them to be interesting tools for studying group behavior. In the last 20 years, scientists have begun to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Matthew I. Jones , Zachary Winkeler

We investigate the effect of a fixed forbidden clique minor upon the strong chromatic index, both in multigraphs and in simple graphs. We conjecture for each $k\ge 4$ that any $K_k$-minor-free multigraph of maximum degree $\Delta$ has…

Clique-width is a well-studied graph parameter. For graphs of bounded clique-width, many problems that are NP-hard in general can be polynomial-time solvable. The fact motivates several studies to investigate whether the clique-width of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-01 Yu Nakahata

We prove analogs of Brooks' Theorem for the list-distinguishing chromatic number of different classes of simple finite connected graphs. Moreover, we determine two upper bounds for the list-distinguishing chromatic number of a graph G in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Amitayu Banerjee , Zalán Molnár , Alexa Gopaulsingh

Let $\Gamma(n,k)$ be the set of $2$-connected $n$-vertex graphs containing an edge that is not on any cycle of length at least $k+1.$ Let $g_s(n,k)$ denote the maximum number of $s$-cliques in a graph in $\Gamma(n,k).$ Recently, Ji and Ye…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-13 Leilei Zhang