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We show that Hoffman's sum of eigenvalues bound for the chromatic number is at least as good as the Lov\'asz theta number, but no better than the ceiling of the fractional chromatic number. In order to do so, we display an interesting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-08 Marcel K. de Carli Silva , Gabriel Coutinho , Rafael Grandsire

We prove that in sparse Erd\H{o}s-R\'{e}nyi graphs of average degree $d$, the vector chromatic number (the relaxation of chromatic number coming from the Lov\`{a}sz theta function) is typically $\tfrac{1}{2}\sqrt{d} + o_d(1)$. This fits…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-07-08 Jess Banks , Luca Trevisan

The bounds on the sum and product of chromatic numbers of a graph and its complement are known as Nordhaus-Gaddum inequalities. In this paper, we study the operations on the Independence numbers of graphs with their complement. We also…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-11 Susanth C , Sunny Joseph Kalayathankal

A Nordhaus-Gaddum-type result is a (tight) lower or upper bound on the sum or product of a parameter of a graph and its complement. In this paper some variations are considered. First, recall their theorem, which gives bounds on the sum and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-23 Sunny Joseph Kalayathankal , Susanth C

Nordhaus and Gaddum proved, for any graph G, that the chromatic number of G plus the chromatic number of G complement is less than or equal to the number of vertices in G plus 1. Finck characterized the class of graphs that satisfy equality…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-27 Karen L. Collins , Ann Trenk

A homomorphism from a graph $X$ to a graph $Y$ is an adjacency preserving mapping $f:V(X) \rightarrow V(Y)$. We consider a nonlocal game in which Alice and Bob are trying to convince a verifier with certainty that a graph $X$ admits a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Laura Mančinska , David E. Roberson

The independence number, coloring number and related parameters are investigated in the setting of oriented hypergraphs using the spectrum of the normalized Laplace operator. For the independence number, both an inertia--like bound and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Aida Abiad , Raffaella Mulas , Dong Zhang

We give a closed formula for Lovasz theta number of the powers of cycle graphs and of their complements, the circular complete graphs. As a consequence, we establish that the circular chromatic number of a circular perfect graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-27 Christine Bachoc , Arnaud Pêcher , Alain Thiéry

We introduce a novel technique to give bounds to the entangled value of non-local games. The technique is based on a class of graphs used by Cabello, Severini and Winter in 2010. The upper bound uses the famous Lov\'asz theta number and is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-02 André Chailloux , Laura Mančinska , Giannicola Scarpa , Simone Severini

Hoffman proved that for a simple graph $G$, the chromatic number $\chi(G)$ obeys $\chi(G) \le 1 - \frac{\lambda_1}{\lambda_{n}}$ where $\lambda_1$ and $\lambda_n$ are the maximal and minimal eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-15 Franklin H. J. Kenter

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

A variety of powerful extremal results have been shown for the chromatic number of triangle-free graphs. Three noteworthy bounds are in terms of the number of vertices, edges, and maximum degree given by Poljak \& Tuza (1994), and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-13 David G. Harris

A $50$ years unsolved conjecture by Hedetniemi [{\it Homomorphisms of graphs and automata, \newblock {\em Thesis (Ph.D.)--University of Michigan}, 1966}] asserts that the chromatic number of the categorical product of two graphs $G$ and $H$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-02 Meysam Alishahi , Hossein Hajiabolhassan

We define the independence ratio and the chromatic number for bounded, self-adjoint operators on an L^2-space by extending the definitions for the adjacency matrix of finite graphs. In analogy to the Hoffman bounds for finite graphs, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Christine Bachoc , Evan DeCorte , Fernando Mario de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

The bounds on the sum and product of chromatic numbers of a graph and its complement are known as Nordhaus-Gaddum inequalities. In this paper, we study the bounds on the sum and product of the independence numbers of graphs and their line…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-30 Susanth C , Sunny Joseph Kalayathankal

Sazdanovic and Yip defined a categorification of Stanley's chromatic function called the chromatic symmetric homology. In this paper we prove that (as conjectured by Chandler, Sazdanovic, Stella and Yip), if a graph $G$ is non-planar, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-19 Azzurra Ciliberti , Luca Moci

We prove a version of the strong Taylor's conjecture for stable graphs: if $G$ is a stable graph whose chromatic number is strictly greater than $\beth_2(\aleph_0)$ then $G$ contains all finite subgraphs of Sh$_n(\omega)$ and thus has…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Yatir Halevi , Itay Kaplan , Saharon Shelah

We study quantum versions of the Shannon capacity of graphs and non-commutative graphs. We introduce the asymptotic spectrum of graphs with respect to quantum and entanglement-assisted homomorphisms, and we introduce the asymptotic spectrum…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-10-20 Yinan Li , Jeroen Zuiddam

We study two parameters obtained from the Euler characteristic by replacing the number of faces with that of induced and induced non-separating cycles. By establishing monotonicity of such parameters under certain homomorphism and edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-31 Hanbaek Lyu

We show that for any graph $G$, by considering "activation" through the strong product with another graph $H$, the relation $\alpha(G) \leq \vartheta(G)$ between the independence number and the Lov\'{a}sz number of $G$ can be made…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-06 Antonio Acín , Runyao Duan , David E. Roberson , Ana Belén Sainz , Andreas Winter