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The acyclic chromatic number of a graph is the least number of colors needed to properly color its vertices so that none of its cycles has only two colors. We show that for all $\alpha>2^{-1/3}$ there exists an integer $\Delta_{\alpha}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Lefteris Kirousis , John Livieratos

How does the chromatic number of a graph chosen uniformly at random from all graphs on $n$ vertices behave? This quantity is a random variable, so one can ask (i) for upper and lower bounds on its typical values, and (ii) for bounds on how…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Annika Heckel , Oliver Riordan

Hofmman's bound on the chromatic number of a graph states that $\chi \geq 1 - \frac {\lambda_1} {\lambda_n}$. Here we show that the same bound, or slight modifications of it, hold for several graph parameters related to the chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yonatan Bilu

We consider natural generalization of plane chromatic number problem. We consider chromatic numbers $\chi$ of spaces $\mathbb{R}^n \times [0,\varepsilon]^k$ for arbitrary small $\varepsilon$. We prove that $5 \leq\chi(\mathbb{R}^2\times…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-24 A. J. Kanel-Belov , V. Voronov , D. Cherkashin

A number of famous results about triangle-free graphs determine the maximum chromatic number of graphs of order n with minimum degree greater than n/3. In this note these results are extended to Kr-free graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-14 Vladimir Nikiforov

The "clustered chromatic number" of a class of graphs is the minimum integer $k$ such that for some integer $c$ every graph in the class is $k$-colourable with monochromatic components of size at most $c$. We determine the clustered…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Sergey Norin , Alex Scott , David R. Wood

In this paper, we explore chromatic numbers subject to various local modular constraints. For fixed $n$, we consider proper integer colorings of a graph $G$ for which the closed and open neighborhood sums have nonzero remainders modulo $n$…

The chromatic number for properly colouring the facets of a combinatorial simple $n$-polytope $P^n$ that is the orbit space of a quasitoric manifold satisfies the inequality $n\leq P^n\leq 2^n-1$. The inequality is sharp for $n=2$ but not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Djordje Baralic

The acyclic chromatic index (or acyclic edge-chromatic number) of a graph is the least number of colors needed to properly color its edges so that none of its cycles has only two colors. We show that for a graph of max degree $\Delta$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Lefteris Kirousis , John Livieratos , Alexandros Singh

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

For a multigraph G, the integer round-up phi(G) of the fractional chromatic index yields a good general lower bound for the chromatic index . For an upper bound, Kahn showed that for any real c > 0 there exists a positive integer N so that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Michael Plantholt

The clique chromatic number of a graph is the smallest number of colors in a vertex coloring so that no maximal clique is monochromatic. In 2016 McDiarmid, Mitsche and Pralat noted that around p \approx n^{-1/2} the clique chromatic number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-30 Lyuben Lichev , Dieter Mitsche , Lutz Warnke

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

Using a SAT-solver on top of a partial previously-known solution we improve the upper bound of the packing chromatic number of the infinite square lattice from 17 to 15. We discuss the merits of SAT-solving for this kind of problem as well…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-26 Barnaby Martin , Franco Raimondi , Taolue Chen , Jos Martin

We give an exponential improvement to the lower bound on diagonal Ramsey numbers for any fixed number of colors greater than two.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-30 David Conlon , Asaf Ferber

The chromatic number of the random graph $\mathcal{G}(n,p)$ has long been studied and has inspired several landmark results. In the case where $p = d/n$, Achlioptas and Naor showed the chromatic number is asymptotically concentrated at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-24 Karen Gunderson , JD Nir

The star chromatic index $\chi_s'(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors needed to properly color the edges of the graph so that no path or cycle of length four is bi-colored. We obtain a near-linear upper bound in terms of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Zdeněk Dvořák , Bojan Mohar , Robert Šámal

In the paper we give a lower bound for the number of vertices of a given graph using its chromatic number. We find the graphs for which this bound is exact. The results are applied in the theory of Foklman numbers.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-24 Nedyalko Dimov Nenov

We show that the chromatic number of $G_{n, \frac 12}$ is not concentrated on fewer than $n^{\frac 14 - \varepsilon}$ consecutive values. This addresses a longstanding question raised by Erd\H{o}s and several other authors.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Annika Heckel

The chromatic number of the finite projective space $\mathrm{PG}(n-1,q)$, denoted $\chi_q(n)$, is the minimum number of colors needed to color its points so that no line is monochromatic. We prove subadditivity of $\chi_q(n)$ with respect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Anurag Bishnoi , Wouter Cames van Batenburg , Ananthakrishnan Ravi