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The chromatic functor of a simple graph is a functorization of the chromatic polynomial. M. Yoshinaga showed in \cite{Yoshinaga2015} that two finite graphs have isomorphic chromatic functors if and only if they have the same chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Ye Liu

By a finite type-graph we mean a graph whose set of vertices is the set of all $k$-subsets of $[n]=\{1,2,\ldots, n\}$ for some integers $n\ge k\ge 1$, and in which two such sets are adjacent if and only if they realise a certain order type…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-12 Christian Avart , Bill Kay , Christian Reiher , Vojtěch Rödl

This paper describes how many known graph polynomials arise from the coefficients of chromatic symmetric function expansions in different bases, and studies a new polynomial arising by expanding over a basis given by chromatic symmetric…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-18 William Chan , Logan Crew

We construct bounded degree acyclic Borel graphs with large Borel chromatic number using a graph arising from Ramsey theory and limits of expander sequences.

Logic · Mathematics 2022-05-05 Jan Grebík , Zoltán Vidnyánszky

The chromatic polynomial of a graph G counts the number of proper colorings of G. We give an affirmative answer to the conjecture of Read and Rota-Heron-Welsh that the absolute values of the coefficients of the chromatic polynomial form a…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2012-02-13 June Huh

The aim of this paper is to generalize the notion of the coloring complex of a graph to hypergraphs. We present three different interpretations of those complexes -- a purely combinatorial one and two geometric ones. It is shown, that most…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Felix Breuer , Aaron Dall , Martina Kubitzke

The total Betti number of the independence complex of a graph is an intriguing graph invariant. Kalai and Meshulam have raised the question on its relation to cycles and the chromatic number of a graph, and a recent conjecture on that theme…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Alexander Engstrom

We construct Borel graphs which settle several questions in descriptive graph combinatorics. These include "Can the Baire measurable chromatic number of a locally finite Borel graph exceed the usual chromatic number by more than one?" and…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-04-07 Felix Weilacher

The study of ordered Ramsey numbers of monotone paths for graphs and hypergraphs has a long history, going back to the celebrated work by Erd\H{o}s and Szekeres in the early days of Ramsey theory. In this paper we obtain several results in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-09 Lior Gishboliner , Zhihan Jin , Benny Sudakov

In this paper, we examine roots of graph polynomials where those roots can be considered as structural graph measures. More precisely, we prove analytical results for the roots of certain modified graph polynomials and also discuss…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-11 Simon Brezovnik , Matthias Dehmer , Niko Tratnik , Petra Žigert Pleteršek

We introduce path-conjoined graphs defined for two rooted graphs by joining their roots with a path, and investigate the chromatic symmetric functions of its two generalizations: spider-conjoined graphs and chain-conjoined graphs. By using…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 E. Y. J. Qi , D. Q. B. Tang , D. G. L. Wang

We study "holomorphic quadratic differentials" on graphs. We relate them to the reactive power in an LC circuit, and also to the chromatic polynomial of a graph. Specifically, we show that the chromatic polynomial $\chi$ of a graph $G$, at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-02 Richard Kenyon , Wai Yeung Lam

We show that there is no simple (e.g. finite or countable) basis for Borel graphs with infinite Borel chromatic number. In fact, it is proved that the closed subgraphs of the shift graph on $[\mathbb{N}]^{<\mathbb{N}}$ with finite (or,…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-05-28 Stevo Todorčević , Zoltán Vidnyánszky

We consider proper colorings of planar graphs embedded in the annulus, such that vertices on one rim can take Q_s colors, while all remaining vertices can take Q colors. The corresponding chromatic polynomial is related to the partition…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2008-12-18 Jesper Lykke Jacobsen , Hubert Saleur

A famous and wide-open problem, going back to at least the early 1970's, concerns the classification of chromatic polynomials of graphs. Toward this classification problem, one may ask for necessary inequalities among the coefficients of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-21 Matthias Beck , Emerson Leon

If a graph has bounded clique number, and sufficiently large chromatic number, what can we say about its induced subgraphs? Andr\'as Gy\'arf\'as made a number of challenging conjectures about this in the early 1980's, which have remained…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-26 Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

A recent result of Lofano and Paolini expresses the characteristic polynomial of a real hyperplane arrangement in terms of a projection statistic on the regions of the arrangement. We use this result to give an alternative proof for Greene…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-27 Neha Goregaokar

In this paper we resolve the complexity of the isomorphism problem on all but finitely many of the graph classes characterized by two forbidden induced subgraphs. To this end we develop new techniques applicable for the structural and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Pascal Schweitzer

We prove that for every $t\in \mathbb{N}$ there is a constant $\gamma_t$ such that every graph with twin-width at most $t$ and clique number $\omega$ has chromatic number bounded by $2^{\gamma_t \log^{4t+3} \omega}$. In other words, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-16 Michał Pilipczuk , Marek Sokołowski

For each commutative, graded algebra with finite dimension in each degree, we construct a graded cohomology theory for graphs whose graded Euler characteristic is the chromatic polynomial of the graph. This extends our previous work which…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Laure Helme-Guizon , Yongwu Rong