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Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-21 Cuauhtemoc Gomez-Navarro , Edgardo Roldán-Pensado

One widely applied sufficient condition for the existence of a colorful simplex in a vertex-colored simplicial complex is a topological extension of Hall's transversal theorem due to Aharoni, Haxell, and Meshulam. We prove a similar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Ronen Wdowinski

Hadwiger Conjecture has been an open problem for over a half century1,6, which says that there is at most a complete graph Kt but no Kt+1 for every t-colorable graph. A few cases of Hadwiger Conjecture, such as 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6-colorable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-29 T. -Q. Wang , X. -J. Wang

We prove a colorful generalization of the Borsuk--Ulam theorem and derive colorful consequences from it, such as a colorful generalization of the ham sandwich theorem. Even in the uncolored case this specializes to a strengthening of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-27 Florian Frick , Zoe Wellner

We solve a long-standing open problem posed by Goodman \& Pollack in 1988 by establishing a necessary and sufficient condition for a family of convex sets in $\mathbb{R}^d$ to admit a $k$-transversal for any $0 \le k \le d-1$. This result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-26 Daniel McGinnis , Nikola Sadovek

We first give an alternative proof of the Alon-Tarsi list coloring theorem. We use the ideas from this proof to obtain the following result, which is an additive coloring analog of the Alon-Tarsi Theorem: Let $G$ be a graph and let $D$ be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-15 Ian Gossett

We provide a short proof of a conic version of the colorful Carath\'eodory theorem for oriented matroids. Holmsen's extension of the colorful Carath\'eodory theorem to oriented matroids (Advances in Mathematics, 2016) already encompasses…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-26 Minho Cho , Seunghun Lee , Frédéric Meunier

Hadwiger's Conjecture states that every graph with chromatic number $k$ contains a complete graph on $k$ vertices as a minor. This conjecture is a tremendous strengthening of the Four-Colour Theorem and is regarded as one of the most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-23 Jofre Costa , Eric Luu , David R. Wood , Jung Hon Yip

We present an explicit family of hypergraphs with arbitrarily large uniformity and chromatic number that admit realizations in both geometric and number-theoretic settings. As an application, we give a new proof of a theorem of Chen, Pach,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Gábor Damásdi

We show that any $d$-colored set of points in general position in $\mathbb{R}^d$ can be partitioned into $n$ subsets with disjoint convex hulls such that the set of points and all color classes are partitioned as evenly as possible. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-04 Pavle V. M. Blagojević , Günter Rote , Johanna K. Steinmeyer , Günter M. Ziegler

We prove that any finite set of half-planes can be colored by two colors so that every point of the plane, which belongs to at least three half-planes in the set, is covered by half-planes of both colors. This settles a problem of Keszegh.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-05 Radoslav Fulek

A generalization of the four-color theorem, Hadwiger's conjecture is considered as one of the most important and challenging problems in graph theory, and odd Hadwiger's conjecture is a strengthening of Hadwiger's conjecture by way of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-16 Meirun Chen , Reza Naserasr , Lujia Wang , Sanming Zhou

Hadwiger and Haj\'{o}s conjectured that for every positive integer $t$, $K_{t+1}$-minor free graphs and $K_{t+1}$-topological minor free graphs are properly $t$-colorable, respectively. Clustered coloring version of these two conjectures…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Chun-Hung Liu

Hadwiger's Conjecture asserts that every $K_h$-minor-free graph is properly $(h-1)$-colourable. We prove the following improper analogue of Hadwiger's Conjecture: for fixed $h$, every $K_h$-minor-free graph is $(h-1)$-colourable with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-13 Vida Dujmović , Louis Esperet , Pat Morin , David R. Wood

A conjecture due to the fourth author states that every $d$-regular planar multigraph can be $d$-edge-coloured, provided that for every odd set $X$ of vertices, there are at least $d$ edges between $X$ and its complement. For $d = 3$ this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-10-30 Maria Chudnovsky , Katherine Edwards , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Paul Seymour

Let $G$ and $H$ be finite-dimensional vector spaces over $\mathbb{F}_p$. A subset $A \subseteq G \times H$ is said to be transverse if all of its rows $\{x \in G \colon (x,y) \in A\}$, $y \in H$, are subspaces of $G$ and all of its columns…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-22 Luka Milićević

The inclusion relation between simple objects in the plane may be used to define geometric set systems, or hypergraphs. Properties of various types of colorings of these hypergraphs have been the subject of recent investigations, with…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Jean Cardinal , Matias Korman

We give a natural sufficient condition for an intersection graph of compact convex sets in R^d to have a balanced separator of sublinear size. This condition generalizes several previous results on sublinear separators in intersection…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Zdenek Dvorak , Rose McCarty , Sergey Norin

We prove extensions of Halman's discrete Helly theorem for axis-parallel boxes in $\mathbb{R}^d$. Halman's theorem says that, given a set $S$ in $\mathbb{R}^d$, if $F$ is a finite family of axis-parallel boxes such that the intersection of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-23 Timothy Edwards , Pablo Soberón

We prove a colorful extension of a Helly-type theorem by Danzer and Gr\"{u}nbaum (Combinatorica, 1982) concerning two-piercing families of axis-parallel boxes in $\mathbb{R}^d$. We also show that our result is tight by constructing extremal…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Sourav Chakraborty , Arijit Ghosh , Soumi Nandi