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We get a quite maximal version of the colouring property $Pr_1$ by proving $Pr_1(\lambda,\lambda,\lambda,\theta)$ when $\lambda = \partial^+, \partial > \theta$ are regular cardinals.

Logic · Mathematics 2021-05-14 Saharon Shelah

Motivated by the observation that the counting function of a certain base-3 colored partition contains the even perfect numbers as a subsequence, we begin by defining a sequence of polynomials in four variables and discuss their properties…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-04 Karl Dilcher , Larry Ericksen

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 $G = (V,E)$ be a finite, simple, connected graph with chromatic polynomial $P_G(q)$. Sokal \cite{sokal} proved that the roots of the chromatic polynomial of $G$ are bounded in absolute value by $KD$ where, $D$ is the maximum degree of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-22 Sukhada Fadnavis

The origin of the colours of quarks has been explored and the number of colours equal to three has been derived from the fractal properties suggested in the statistical model.The quark gluon coupling constant has been reproduced and the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2011-04-11 S. Mukherjee , S. N. Banerjee

In this paper, we consider a weighted generalization of the chromatic number of a Binomial random graph~\(G.\) We equip each edge with a random weight and then colour the vertices in such a way that the absolute colour difference between…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

J. Makowsky and B. Zilber (2004) showed that many variations of graph colorings, called CP-colorings in the sequel, give rise to graph polynomials. This is true in particular for harmonious colorings, convex colorings, mcc_t-colorings, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-25 A. Goodall , M. Hermann , T. Kotek , J. A. Makowsky , S. D. Noble

Let $V$ be a vector space of dimension $v$ over a field of order $q$. The $q$-Kneser graph has the $k$-dimensional subspaces of $V$ as its vertices, where two subspaces $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are adjacent if and only if $\alpha\cap\beta$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ameera Chowdhury , Chris Godsil , Gordon Royle

Consider a graph obtained by taking edge disjoint union of $k$ complete bipartite graphs. Alon, Saks and Seymour conjectured that such graph has chromatic number at most $k+1$. This well known conjecture remained open for almost twenty…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-02-26 Hao Huang , Benny Sudakov

A contact graph of a packing of closed balls is a graph with balls as vertices and pairs of tangent balls as edges. We prove that the average degree of the contact graph of a packing of balls (with possibly different radii) in…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Alexey Glazyrin

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

We consider the chromatic number of the random Borsuk graph. The random Borsuk graph is obtained by sampling $n$ points i.i.d. uniformly at random on the $d$-dimensional sphere $S^d$, and joining a pair of points by an edge whenever their…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Álvaro Acitores Montero , Matthias Irlbeck , Tobias Müller , Matěj Stehlík

The chromatic polynomial $\pi_{G}(k)$ of a graph $G$ can be viewed as counting the number of vertices in a family of coloring graphs $\mathcal C_k(G)$ associated with (proper) $k$-colorings of $G$ as a function of the number of colors $k$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Shamil Asgarli , Sara Krehbiel , Howard W. Levinson , Heather M. Russell

Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal constructed a 4-coloring of the triples of an $N$-element set such that every $n$-element subset contains 2 triples with distinct colors, and $N$ is double exponential in $n$. Conlon, Fox and R\"odl asked whether there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-08 Dhruv Mubayi , Andrew Suk

The packing chromatic number $\chi_{\rho}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ such that the vertex set of $G$ can be partitioned into sets $\Pi_1,\ldots,\Pi_k$, where $\Pi_i$, $i\in [k]$, is an $i$-packing. The following…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Boštjan Brešar , Sandi Klavžar , Douglas F. Rall , Kirsti Wash

Bicliques are complements of bipartite graphs; as such each consists of two cliques joined by a number of edges. In this paper we study algebraic aspects of the chromatic polynomials of these graphs. We derive a formula for the chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-26 Adam Bohn

It is shown that for any fixed $c \geq 3$ and $r$, the maximum possible chromatic number of a graph on $n$ vertices in which every subgraph of radius at most $r$ is $c$ colorable is $\tilde{\Theta}\left(n ^ {\frac{1}{r+1}} \right)$ (that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-01 Noga Alon , Omri Ben-Eliezer

The chromatic polynomials are studied by several authors and have important applications in different frameworks, specially, in graph theory and enumerative combinatorics. The aim of this work is to establish some properties of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-25 Mohammed Said Maamra , Miloud Mihoubi

Given a subgraph G of the hypercube Q_n, a coloring of the edges of Q_n such that every embedding of G contains an edge of every color is called a G-polychromatic coloring. The maximum number of colors with which it is possible to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-12 John Goldwasser , Bernard Lidický , Ryan R. Martin , David Offner , John Talbot , Michael Young

We investigate the list packing number of a graph, the least $k$ such that there are always $k$ disjoint proper list-colourings whenever we have lists all of size $k$ associated to the vertices. We are curious how the behaviour of the list…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Stijn Cambie , Wouter Cames van Batenburg , Ewan Davies , Ross J. Kang