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Alon and Krivelevich conjectured that if $G$ is a bipartite graph of maximum degree $\Delta$, then the choosability (or list chromatic number) of $G$ satisfies $\chi_{\ell}(G) = O \left ( \log \Delta \right )$. Currently, the best known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Peter Bradshaw , Bojan Mohar , Ladislav Stacho

Borodin and Kostochka in 1977 conjectured that if a graph $G$ has maximum degree $\Delta(G)\ge 9$ and its clique number satisfies $\omega(G)\le \Delta(G)-1$, then its chromatic number satisfies $\chi(G) \le \Delta(G)-1$. We prove this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-17 Zdeněk Dvořák , Ross J. Kang , David Mikšaník

A {\it local antimagic labeling} of a connected graph $G$ with at least three vertices, is a bijection $f:E(G) \rightarrow \{1,2,\ldots , |E(G)|\}$ such that for any two adjacent vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$, the condition $\omega _{f}(u)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Saeed Shaebani

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) is a well-studied generalization of list coloring introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2015. The following sharp bound on the DP-chromatic number of the Cartesian product of graphs $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Gunjan Sharma

A collection of graphs is \textit{nearly disjoint} if every pair of them intersects in at most one vertex. We prove that if $G_1, \dots, G_m$ are nearly disjoint graphs of maximum degree at most $D$, then the following holds. For every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Tom Kelly , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

Given a graph $G$, the $k$-coloring graph $\mathcal{C}_k(G)$ is constructed by selecting proper $k$-colorings of $G$ as vertices, with an edge between two colorings if they differ in the color of exactly one vertex. The number of vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-07 Simon MacLean

List packing is a notion that was introduced in 2021 (by Cambie et al.). The list packing number of a graph $G$, denoted $\chi_{\ell}^*(G)$, is the least $k$ such that for any list assignment $L$ that assigns $k$ colors to each vertex of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-19 Jeffrey A. Mudrock

A subset $X$ of vertices in a graph $G$ is a {\em diameter 2 subset} if the distance of any two vertices of $X$ is at most two {\em in $G[X]$}. Relaxing this notion, a subset $X$ of vertices in a graph $G$ is a {\em 2-reachable subset} if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-16 Andras Gyarfas , Gabor N. Sarkozy

In this paper uniquely list colorable graphs are studied. A graph G is called to be uniquely k-list colorable if it admits a k-list assignment from which G has a unique list coloring. The minimum k for which G is not uniquely k-list…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Ch. Eslahchi , M. Ghebleh , H. Hajiabolhassan

Let G be an n-vertex graph with list-chromatic number $\chi_\ell$. Suppose each vertex of G is assigned a list of t colors. Albertson, Grossman, and Haas conjecture that at least $t n / {\chi_\ell}$ vertices can be colored from these lists.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Glenn G. Chappell

\textit{Total Coloring} of a graph is a major coloring problem in combinatorial mathematics, introduced in the early $1960$s. A \textit{total coloring} of a graph $G$ is a map $f:V(G) \cup E(G) \rightarrow \mathcal{K}$, where $\mathcal{K}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-18 T Srinivasa Murthy

Let $G$ be a plane graph with outer cycle $C$ and let $(L(v):v\in V(G))$ be a family of sets such that $|L(v)|\ge 5$ for every $v\in V(G)$. By an $L$-coloring of a subgraph $J$ of $G$ we mean a (proper) coloring $\phi$ of $J$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Luke Postle , Robin Thomas

A b-coloring of the vertices of a graph is a proper coloring where each color class contains a vertex which is adjacent to each other color class. The b-chromatic number of $G$ is the maximum integer $b(G)$ for which $G$ has a b-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-16 Ana Silva , Cláudia Linhares-Sales

The fractional list packing number $\chi_{\ell}^{\bullet}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is a graph invariant that has recently arisen from the study of disjoint list-colourings. It measures how large the lists of a list-assignment $L:V(G)\rightarrow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Stijn Cambie , Wouter Cames van Batenburg

In this article we consider a problem related to two famous combinatorial topics. One of them concerns the chromatic number of the space. The other deals with graphs having big girth (the length of the shortest cycle) and large chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Andrey Kupavskii

The chromatic threshold of a graph $H$ is the minimum-degree density above which every $H$-free graph has bounded chromatic number. We study a two-color Ramsey analogue: for graphs $H_1$ and $H_2$, we ask for the minimum-degree density…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Jun Gao , Hong Liu , Zhuo Wu , Yisai Xue

In 1998, Reed conjectured that every graph $G$ satisfies $\chi(G) \leq \lceil \frac{1}{2}(\Delta(G) + 1 + \omega(G))\rceil$, where $\chi(G)$ is the chromatic number of $G$, $\Delta(G)$ is the maximum degree of $G$, and $\omega(G)$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-25 Tom Kelly , Luke Postle

The detour order of a graph $G$, denoted $\tau(G)$, is the order of a longest path in $G$. A partition $(A, B)$ of $V(G)$ such that $\tau(\langle A \rangle) \leq a$ and $\tau(\langle B \rangle) \leq b$ is called an $(a, b)$-partition of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-16 G. Sethuraman

The adaptable choosability of a multigraph $G$, denoted $\mathrm{ch}_a(G)$, is the smallest integer $k$ such that any edge labelling, $\tau$, of $G$ and any assignment of lists of size $k$ to the vertices of $G$ permits a list colouring,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-12 Jurgen Aliaj , Michael Molloy

A solution to a problem of Erd\H{o}s, Rubin and Taylor is obtained by showing that if a graph $G$ is $(a:b)$-choosable, and $c/d > a/b$, then $G$ is not necessarily $(c:d)$-choosable. The simplest case of another problem, stated by the same…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-02-18 Shai Gutner