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We prove measurable analogues of Whitney's classical theorems on weak isomorphisms of finite graphs. In the setting of locally finite graphings, we introduce a notion of weak isomorphism as an edge-measure-preserving Borel bijection that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-18 Márton Borbényi , Grigory Terlov , László Márton Tóth

Curve pseudo-visibility graphs generalize polygon and pseudo-polygon visibility graphs and form a hereditary class of graphs. We prove that every curve pseudo-visibility graph with clique number $\omega$ has chromatic number at most $3\cdot…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-16 James Davies , Tomasz Krawczyk , Rose McCarty , Bartosz Walczak

A b-coloring of a graph is a coloring of its vertices such that every color class contains a vertex that has a neighbor in all other classes. The b-chromatic number of a graph is the largest integer k such that the graph has a b-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-21 Victor Campos , Victor Farias , Ana Silva

An $(L,d)^*$-coloring is a mapping $\phi$ that assigns a color $\phi(v)\in L(v)$ to each vertex $v\in V(G)$ such that at most $d$ neighbors of $v$ receive colore $\phi(v)$. A graph is called $(m,d)^*$-choosable, if $G$ admits an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Baogang Xu , Qinglin Yu

Reed [J.~Comb.~Theory B, 1999] showed that graphs of maximum degree $\Delta \geq 10^{14}$ without $\Delta$-cliques are $(\Delta-1)$-colorable. We design a one-pass semi-streaming algorithm for computing such a coloring. Additionally, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Maxime Flin , Magnús M. Halldórsson

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

Let $K_4^+$ be the 5-vertex graph obtained from $K_4$, the complete graph on four vertices, by subdividing one edge precisely once (i.e. by replacing one edge by a path on three vertices). We prove that if the chromatic number of some graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Louis Esperet , Nicolas Trotignon

The colored Tverberg theorem asserts that for every d and r there exists t=t(d,r) such that for every set C in R^d of cardinality (d+1)t, partitioned into t-point subsets C_1,C_2,...,C_{d+1} (which we think of as color classes; e.g., the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-02 Jiří Matoušek , Martin Tancer , Uli Wagner

It is proved that if we partition a $d$-dimensional cube into $n^d$ small cubes and color the small cubes into $m+1$ colors then there exists a monochromatic connected component consisting of at least $f(d, m) n^{d-m}$ small cubes.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-23 Roman Karasev

An NP-complete coloring or homomorphism problem may become polynomial time solvable when restricted to graphs with degrees bounded by a small number, but remain NP-complete if the bound is higher. For instance, 3-colorability of graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-11-29 Aurosish Mishra , Pavol Hell

A proper vertex coloring of a graph is said to be locally identifying if the sets of colors in the closed neighborhood of any two adjacent non-twin vertices are distinct. The lid-chromatic number of a graph is the minimum number of colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Daniel Gonçalves , Aline Parreau , Alexandre Pinlou

We prove that every Schreier graph of a free Borel action of a finitely generated non-amenable group has a Baire measurable perfect matching. This result was previously only known in the bipartite setting. We also prove that every Borel…

Logic · Mathematics 2023-11-14 Alexander Kastner , Clark Lyons

A $K_3$-WORM coloring of a graph $G$ is an assignment of colors to the vertices in such a way that the vertices of each $K_3$-subgraph of $G$ get precisely two colors. We study graphs $G$ which admit at least one such coloring. We disprove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-10 Csilla Bujtás , Zsolt Tuza

For graph classes $P_1,...,P_k$, Generalized Graph Coloring is the problem of deciding whether the vertex set of a given graph $G$ can be partitioned into subsets $V_1,...,V_k$ so that $V_j$ induces a graph in the class $P_j$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir E. Alekseev , Alastair Farrugia , Vadim V. Lozin

Haj\'os conjectured that every graph containing no subdivision of the complete graph $K_{s+1}$ is properly $s$-colorable. This conjecture was disproved by Catlin. Indeed, the maximum chromatic number of such graphs is $\Omega(s^2/\log s)$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-28 Chun-Hung Liu , David R. Wood

We prove that every graph with circumference at most $k$ is $O(\log k)$-colourable such that every monochromatic component has size at most $O(k)$. The $O(\log k)$ bound on the number of colours is best possible, even in the setting of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Bojan Mohar , Bruce Reed , David R. Wood

We study a restricted form of list colouring, for which every pair of lists that correspond to adjacent vertices may not share more than one colour. The optimal list size such that a proper list colouring is always possible given this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Louis Esperet , Ross J. Kang , Stéphan Thomassé

We give a short proof of a bound on the list chromatic number of graphs $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta$ where each neighbourhood has density at most $d$, namely $\chi_\ell(G) \le (1+o(1)) \frac{\Delta}{\ln \frac{\Delta}{d+1}}$ as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-29 François Pirot , Eoin Hurley

We show that for any fixed integer $m \geq 1$, a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ has a coloring with $O(\Delta^{(m+1)/m})$ colors in which every connected bicolored subgraph contains at most $m$ edges. This result unifies previously known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-28 Peter Bradshaw

The Colouring problem is that of deciding, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, whether $G$ admits a (proper) $k$-colouring. For all graphs $H$ up to five vertices, we classify the computational complexity of Colouring for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Konrad K. Dabrowski , François Dross , Daniël Paulusma