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NP-complete problems should be hard on some instances but those may be extremely rare. On generic instances many such problems, especially related to random graphs, have been proven easy. We show the intractability of random instances of a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-10-25 Leonid A. Levin , Ramarathnam Venkatesan

The graph projection of a hypergraph is a simple graph with the same vertex set and with an edge between each pair of vertices that appear in a hyperedge. We consider the problem of reconstructing a random $d$-uniform hypergraph from its…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2025-02-14 Guy Bresler , Chenghao Guo , Yury Polyanskiy

One of the most famous results in the theory of random graphs establishes that the threshold for Hamiltonicity in the Erdos-Renyi random graph G_{n,p} is around p ~ (log n + log log n) / n. Much research has been done to extend this to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-01-04 Alan Frieze , Po-Shen Loh

What is the maximum, over all 2-colourings of the edges of the $n$-dimensional hypercube $Q_n$, of the minimal number of times a path between a vertex $v$ and its antipode $\bar{v}$ changes colour? A conjecture of Norine, in a form due to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-29 Lawrence Hollom

We consider the graphs whose edges are marked by the integers (weights) from $0$ to $q-1$ (zero corresponds to no-edge). Such graph is called additive if its vertices can be marked in such a way that the weight of every edge is equal to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-20 Evgeny Bespalov , Denis Krotov

A graph is {\em locally irregular} if no two adjacent vertices have the same degree. A {\em locally irregular edge-coloring} of a graph $G$ is such an (improper) edge-coloring that the edges of any fixed color induce a locally irregular…

A sequence is called non-repetitive if no of its subsequences forms a repetition (a sequence $r_1,r_2,\dots,r_{2n}$ such that $r_i=r_{n+i}$ for all $1\leq i \leq n$). Let $G$ be a graph whose vertices are coloured. A colouring $\varphi$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-19 Iztok Peterin , Jens Schreyer , Erika Škrabuľáková , Andrej Taranenko

Given independent random points $X_1,...,X_n\in\eR^d$ with common probability distribution $\nu$, and a positive distance $r=r(n)>0$, we construct a random geometric graph $G_n$ with vertex set $\{1,...,n\}$ where distinct $i$ and $j$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-04 Colin McDiarmid , Tobias Müller

Motivated by the investigation of sharpness of thresholds for Ramsey properties in random graphs, Friedgut, Kohayakawa, R\"odl, Ruci\'nski and Tetali introduced two variants of a single-player game whose goal is to colour the edges of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-05 Yahav Alon , Patrick Morris , Wojciech Samotij

A normal odd partition T of the edges of a cubic graph is a partition into trails of odd length (no repeated edge) such that each vertex is the end vertex of exactly one trail of the partition and internal in some trail. For each vertex v,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-01-30 Jean-Luc Fouquet , Jean-Marie Vanherpe

We study edge-colorings of the complete $p$-graph on $n$ vertices that contain no three edges $A,B,C$ of distinct colors such that the symmetric difference of $A$ and $B$ is contained in $C$. For $p\ge3$ and $n\ge p+1$, we show that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-08 Cheng Chi , Long-tu Yuan

An edge colouring of a graph $G$ is called acyclic if it is proper and every cycle contains at least three colours. We show that for every $\varepsilon>0$, there exists a $g=g(\varepsilon)$ such that if $G$ has girth at least $g$ then $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-21 Xing Shi Cai , Guillem Perarnau , Bruce Reed , Adam Bene Watts

An edge coloring of a graph $G$ with colors $1,2,\ldots ,t$ is called an interval $t$-coloring if for each $i\in \{1,2,\ldots,t\}$ there is at least one edge of $G$ colored by $i$, and the colors of edges incident to any vertex of $G$ are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2010-08-13 Petros A. Petrosyan

An assignment of colours to the vertices of a graph is stable if any two vertices of the same colour have identically coloured neighbourhoods. The goal of colour refinement is to find a stable colouring that uses a minimum number of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2015-09-29 Christoph Berkholz , Paul Bonsma , Martin Grohe

Consider a directed analogue of the random graph process on $n$ vertices, where the $n(n-1)$ edges are ordered uniformly at random and revealed one at a time. It is known that w.h.p.\@ the first digraph in this process with both in-degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-26 Michael Anastos , Joseph Briggs

A nonrepetitive coloring of a path is a coloring of its vertices such that the sequence of colors along the path does not contain two identical, consecutive blocks. The remarkable construction of Thue asserts that 3 colors are enough to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-07-24 Jakub Kozik , Piotr Micek

The Unfriendly Partition Conjecture posits that every countable graph admits a 2-colouring in which for each vertex there are at least as many bichromatic edges containing that vertex as monochromatic ones. This is not known in general, but…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-22 John Haslegrave

R\"odl and Ruci\'nski (1990) established Ramsey's theorem for random graphs. In particular, for fixed integers $r$, $\ell\geq 2$ they showed that $\hat p_{K_\ell,r}(n)=n^{-\frac{2}{\ell+1}}$ is a threshold for the Ramsey property that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-31 Nina Kamčev , Mathias Schacht

In this paper, we study unique colourings in random graphs as a generalization of both conflict-free and injective colourings. Specifically, we impose the condition that a fraction of vertices in the neighbourhood of any vertex are assigned…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

An edge-coloring of a graph $G$ with consecutive integers $c_{1},\ldots,c_{t}$ is called an \emph{interval $t$-coloring} if all colors are used, and the colors of edges incident to any vertex of $G$ are distinct and form an interval of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-04 Petros A. Petrosyan , Hayk H. Tepanyan