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A graph H is called common if the total number of copies of H in every graph and its complement asymptotically minimizes for random graphs. A former conjecture of Burr and Rosta, extending a conjecture of Erdos asserted that every graph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-31 Hamed Hatami , Jan Hladky , Daniel Kral , Serguei Norine , Alexander Razborov

A randomly perturbed graph $G^p = G_\alpha \cup G(n,p)$ is obtained by taking a deterministic $n$-vertex graph $G_\alpha = (V, E)$ with minimum degree $\delta(G)\geq \alpha n$ and adding the edges of the binomial random graph $G(n,p)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Sylwia Antoniuk , Nina Kamčev , Christian Reiher

Let $\phi(k)$ be the minimum number of vertices in a non-$k$-choosable $k$-chromatic graph. The Ohba conjecture, confirmed by Noel, Reed and Wu, asserts that $\phi(k) \ge 2k+2$. This bound is tight if $k$ is even. If $k$ is odd, then it is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Jialu Zhu , Xuding Zhu

Let $K_{n,n}$ be the complete bipartite graph with $n$ vertices in each side. For each vertex draw uniformly at random a list of size $k$ from a base set $S$ of size $s=s(n)$. In this paper we estimate the asymptotic probability of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Michael Krivelevich , Asaf Nachmias

We study several basic problems about colouring the $p$-random subgraph $G_p$ of an arbitrary graph $G$, focusing primarily on the chromatic number and colouring number of $G_p$. In particular, we show that there exist infinitely many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Boris Bukh , Michael Krivelevich , Bhargav Narayanan

Let $G = (V,E)$ be a simple graph and let $\{R,B\}$ be a partition of $E$. We prove that whenever $|E| + \min\{ |R|, |B| \} > { |V| \choose 2 }$, there exists a subgraph of $G$ isomorphic to $K_3$ which contains edges from both $R$ and $B$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-27 Matt DeVos , Jessica McDonald , Amanda Montejano

For a graph $G$ and a not necessarily proper $k$-edge coloring $c:E(G)\to \{ 1,\ldots,k\}$, let $m_i(G)$ be the number of edges of $G$ of color $i$, and call $G$ {\it color-balanced} if $m_i(G)=m_j(G)$ for every two colors $i$ and $j$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-13 Johannes Pardey , Dieter Rautenbach

Vertex coloring of a graph $G$ with $n$-colors can be equivalently thought to be a graph homomorphism (edge preserving vertex mapping) of $G$ to the complete graph $K_n$ of order $n$. So, in that sense, the chromatic number $\chi(G)$ of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-27 Julien Bensmail , Christopher Duffy , Sagnik Sen

Let $\zeta$ be Euclidean norm of the degree sequence of a graph normalized by the graph size. We prove that when the vertices of a graph are randomly colored with $s$ colors such that the fraction of vertices in each color class is bounded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-05 Nicola Apollonio

Let $N$ be the number of copies of a small subgraph $H$ in an Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi graph $G \sim \mathcal{G}(n, p_n)$ where $p_n \to 0$ is chosen so that $\mathbb{E} N = c$, a constant. Results of Bollob\'as show that for regular graphs $H$,…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-11-21 Mriganka Basu Roy Chowdhury

The celebrated canonical Ramsey theorem of Erd\H{o}s and Rado implies that for a given $k$-uniform hypergraph (or $k$-graph) $H$, if $n$ is sufficiently large then any colouring of the edges of the complete $k$-graph $K^{(k)}_n$ gives rise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-10 José D. Alvarado , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Patrick Morris , Guilherme O. Mota

For graphs $G$ and $H$, a {\em homomorphism} from $G$ to $H$, or {\em $H$-coloring} of $G$, is an adjacency preserving map from the vertex set of $G$ to the vertex set of $H$. Writing ${\rm hom}(G,H)$ for the number of $H$-colorings…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-15 David Galvin

Birthday problem is a well-known classic problem in probability theory widely applied in cryptography, and bubble sort is a popular sorting algorithm leading to some interesting theoretical problems in computer science. However, the…

Probability · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Jichu Jiang

In this note, we investigate for various pairs of graphs $(H,G)$ the question of how many random edges must be added to a dense graph to guarantee that any red-blue coloring of the edges contains a red copy of $H$ or a blue copy of $G$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-03 Emily Heath , Daniel McGinnis

Feder and Subi conjectured that for any $2$-coloring of the edges of the $n$-dimensional cube, we can find an antipodal pair of vertices connected by a path that changes color at most once. We discuss the case of random colorings, and we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-24 Daniel Soltész

For two graphs, $G$ and $F$, and an integer $r\ge2$ we write $G\rightarrow (F)_r$ if every $r$-coloring of the edges of $G$ results in a monochromatic copy of $F$. In 1995, the first two authors established a threshold edge probability for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Vojtěch Rödl , Andrzej Ruciński , Mathias Schacht

Let $H$ and $G$ be graphs. An $H$-colouring of $G$ is a proper edge-colouring $f:E(G)\rightarrow E(H)$ such that for any vertex $u\in V(G)$ there exists a vertex $v\in V(H)$ with $f\left (\partial_Gu\right )=\partial_Hv$, where…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-29 Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo , Gloria Tabarelli , Jean Paul Zerafa

Given a graph $H$ and an integer $k\geqslant 2$, let $f_{k}(n,H)$ be the smallest number of colors $C$ such that there exists a proper edge-coloring of the complete graph $K_{n}$ with $C$ colors containing no $k$ vertex-disjoint color…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-03 Zixiang Xu , Gennian Ge

We consider extremal edge-coloring problems inspired by the theory of anti-Ramsey / rainbow coloring, and further by odd-colorings and conflict-free colorings. Let $G$ be a graph, and $F$ any given family of graphs. For every integer $n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Yair Caro , Zsolt Tuza

We solve four similar problems: For every fixed $s$ and large $n$, we describe all values of $n_1,\ldots,n_s$ such that for every $2$-edge-coloring of the complete $s$-partite graph $K_{n_1,\ldots,n_s}$ there exists a monochromatic (i)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-14 József Balogh , Alexandr Kostochka , Mikhail Lavrov , Xujun Liu