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We study the chromatic quasisymmetric class function of a linearized combinatorial Hopf monoid. Given a linearized combinatorial Hopf monoid $H$, and an $H$-structure $h$ on a set $N$, there are proper colorings of $h$, generalizing graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Jacob A. White

We show that deciding whether a given graph $G$ of size $m$ has a unique perfect matching as well as finding that matching, if it exists, can be done in time $O(m)$ if $G$ is either a cograph, or a split graph, or an interval graph, or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-13 S. Chaplick , M. Fürst , F. Maffray , D. Rautenbach

Given a 3-uniform hypergraph H, its 2-intersection graph G has for vertex set the hyperedges of H and ee' is an edge of G whenever e and e' have exactly two common vertices in H. Di Marco et al. prove that deciding wether a graph G is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-24 Niccolò Di Marco , Andrea Frosini , Christophe Picouleau

Given a graph $G$, let $\Delta_2(G)$ denote the maximum number of neighbors any two distinct vertices of $G$ have in common. Vu (2002) proposed that, provided $\Delta_2(G)$ is not too small as a proportion of the maximum degree $\Delta(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-06 Linda Cook , Ross J. Kang , Eileen Robinson , Gabriëlle Zwaneveld

We study the complexity of graph modification problems with respect to homomorphism-based colouring properties of edge-coloured graphs. A homomorphism from edge-coloured graph $G$ to edge-coloured graph $H$ is a vertex-mapping from $G$ to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-05-04 Florent Foucaud , Hervé Hocquard , Dimitri Lajou , Valia Mitsou , Théo Pierron

We study the complexity of a class of promise graph homomorphism problems. For a fixed graph H, the H-colouring problem is to decide whether a given graph has a homomorphism to H. By a result of Hell and Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il, this problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Sergey Avvakumov , Marek Filakovský , Jakub Opršal , Gianluca Tasinato , Uli Wagner

A $(1,1,2,2)$-coloring of a graph is a partition of its vertex set into four sets two of which are independent and the other two are $2$-packings. In this paper, we prove that every claw-free cubic graph admits a $(1,1,2,2)$-coloring. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-25 Boštjan Brešar , Kirsti Kuenzel , Douglas F. Rall

A fork is a graph obtained from $K_{1,3}$ (usually called claw) by subdividing an edge once. A graph is perfectly divisible if for each of its induced subgraph $H$, $V(H)$ can be partitioned into $A$ and $B$ such that $H[A]$ is perfect and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-23 Baogang Xu , Miaoxia Zhuang

We classify the countable homogeneous coloured multipartite graphs with any finite number of parts. By Fraisse's Theorem this amounts to classifying the families F of pairwise non-embeddable finite coloured multipartite graphs for which the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-06-26 Deborah C Lockett , John K Truss

A graph $G$ is said to be perfectly divisible if for every induced subgraph $H$ of $G$ with at least one edge, the vertex set $V(H)$ can be partitioned into two sets $A, B$ such that $H[A]$ is perfect and $\omega(B) < \omega(H)$. It is easy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Hongzhang Chen , Kaiyang Lan , Wenlong Zhong

In~\cite{Hartman:2014}, Hartman, Hubi\v cka and Ma\v sulovi\'c studied the hierarchy of morphism extension classes for finite $L$-colored graphs, that is, undirected graphs without loops where sets of colors selected from $L$ are assigned…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-07 Andrés Aranda , David Hartman

We prove that for every tree $T$ which is not an edge, for almost every graph $G$ which does not contain $T$ as an induced subgraph, $V(G)$ has a partition into $\alpha(T)-1$ parts certifying this fact. Each part induces a graph which is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-03 Bruce Reed , Yelena Yuditsky

A graph is called claw-free if it contains no induced subgraph isomorphic to the complete bipartite graph $K_{1, 3}$. The undirected power graph of a group $G$ has vertices the elements of $G$, with an edge between $g_1$ and $g_2$ if one of…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Pallabi Manna , Santanu Mandal , Andrea Lucchini

A \emph{unichord} in a graph is an edge that is the unique chord of a cycle. A \emph{square} is an induced cycle on four vertices. A graph is \emph{unichord-free} if none of its edges is a unichord. We give a slight restatement of a known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Raphael C. S. Machado , Celina M. H. de Figueiredo , Nicolas Trotignon

A graph $H$ is common if the number of monochromatic copies of $H$ in a 2-edge-colouring of the complete graph $K_n$ is asymptotically minimised by the random colouring. We prove that, given $k,r>0$, there exists a $k$-connected common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-14 Sejin Ko , Joonkyung Lee

We prove that every claw-free graph $G$ that doesn't contain a clique on $\Delta(G) \geq 9$ vertices can be $\Delta(G) - 1$ colored.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-06 Daniel W. Cranston , Landon Rabern

We prove Hadwiger's Conjecture for $\{\text{co-claw}, \text{co-gem}\}$-free graphs and $\{\text{fork}, \text{antifork}\}$-free graphs, where the co-claw is the disjoint union of a triangle and a vertex, the co-gem is the disjoint union of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Daniel Carter , Jung Hon Yip

In this paper, we introduce the \emph{$\alpha$-chromatic symmetric functions} $\chi^{(\alpha)}_\pi[X;q]$, extending Shareshian and Wachs' chromatic symmetric functions with an additional real parameter $\alpha$. We present positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Jim Haglund , Jaeseong Oh , Meesue Yoo

In 1993, Stanley and Stembridge conjectured that a chromatic symmetric function of any $(3+1)$-free poset is $e$-positive. Guay-Paquet reduced the conjecture to $(3+1)$- and $(2+2)$-free posets which are also called natural unit interval…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-15 Seung Jin Lee , Sue Kyong Y. Soh

We study the chromatic symmetric function on graphs, and show that its kernel is spanned by the modular relations. We generalize this result to the chromatic quasisymmetric function on hypergraphic polytopes, a family of generalized…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Raul Penaguiao