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We consider sparse random intersection graphs with the property that the clustering coefficient does not vanish as the number of nodes tends to infinity. We find explicit asymptotic expressions for the correlation coefficient of degrees of…

Probability · Mathematics 2019-08-24 Mindaugas Bloznelis , Jerzy Jaworski , Valentas Kurauskas

The local chromatic number is a coloring parameter defined as the minimum number of colors that should appear in the most colorful closed neighborhood of a vertex under any proper coloring of the graph. Its directed version is the same when…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-03 Gábor Simonyi , Gábor Tardos , Ambrus Zsbán

We prove two estimates for the expectation of the exponential of a complex function of a random permutation or subset. Using this theory, we find asymptotic expressions for the expected number of copies and induced copies of a given graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Catherine Greenhill , Mikhail Isaev , Brendan D. McKay

We investigate the notion of quantum chromatic number of a graph, which is the minimal number of colours necessary in a protocol in which two separated provers can convince an interrogator with certainty that they have a colouring of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Peter J. Cameron , Ashley Montanaro , Michael W. Newman , Simone Severini , Andreas Winter

We establish new Bonferroni-type lower bounds for the probability of a union of finitely many events where the selection of intersections in the estimates is determined by the clique complex of a chordal graph.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-03 Klaus Dohmen

An integer partition is called graphical if it is the degree sequence of a simple graph. We prove that the probability that a uniformly chosen partition of size $n$ is graphical decreases to zero faster than $n^{-.003}$, answering a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Stephen Melczer , Marcus Michelen , Somabha Mukherjee

In many practical applications the underlying graph must be as equitable colored as possible. A coloring is called equitable if the number of vertices colored with each color differs by at most one, and the least number of colors for which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-01 Emanuel Florentin Olariu , Cristian Frasinaru

We study how few pairwise distinct longest cycles a regular graph can have under additional constraints. For each integer $r \geq 5$, we give exponential improvements for the best asymptotic upper bounds for this invariant under the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-27 Jorik Jooken

The vertex coloring problem to find chromatic numbers is known to be unsolvable in polynomial time. Although various algorithms have been proposed to efficiently compute chromatic numbers, they tend to take an enormous amount of time for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-03 Yayoi Abe , Auna Setoh , Gen Yoneda

In the way of proving Kneser's conjecture, L\'{a}szl\'{o} Lov\'{a}sz settled out a new lower bound for the chromatic number. He showed that if neighborhood complex $\mathcal{N}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is topologically $k$-connected, then its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-22 Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh

The smallest eigenvalues of (distance-j) Hamming graphs with distance parameter j at least half the length were completely determined by Brouwer et al. (2018). In the present work, we address the complementary regime, namely distances j…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Yu Ning , Jack H. Koolen , Xiande Zhang

Quantum graphs are an operator space generalization of classical graphs that have emerged in different branches of mathematics including operator theory, non-commutative topology and quantum information theory. In this paper, we obtain…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Priyanga Ganesan

First, I introduce quantum graph theory. I also discuss a known lower bound on the independence numbers and derive from it an upper bound on the chromatic numbers of quantum graphs. Then, I construct a family of quantum graphs that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Steven Lu

We define a new graph invariant called the scramble number. We show that the scramble number of a graph is a lower bound for the gonality and an upper bound for the treewidth. Unlike the treewidth, the scramble number is not minor monotone,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-08 Michael Harp , Elijah Jackson , David Jensen , Noah Speeter

A lambda colouring (or $L(2,1)-$colouring) of a graph is an assignment of non-negative integers (with minimum assignment $0$) to its vertices such that the adjacent vertices must receive integers at least two apart and vertices at distance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-07 Kaushik Majumder , Ushnish Sarkar

Tatsuyuki Hikita recently proved the Stanley--Stembridge conjecture using probabilistic methods, showing that the chromatic symmetric functions of unit interval graphs are $e$-positive. Finding a combinatorial interpretation for these…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Isaiah Siegl

We prove that for $k\geq 3$, the bound given by Brooks' theorem on the chromatic number of $k$-th powers of graphs of maximum degree $\Delta \geq 3$ can be lowered by 1, even in the case of online list coloring.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-10-22 Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet

This paper sets out the results of a range of searches for linear and cyclic graph colourings with specific Ramsey properties. The new graphs comprise mainly 'template graphs' which can be used in a construction described by the current…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-20 Fred Rowley

An ordered graph $G$ is a graph together with a specified linear ordering on the vertices, and its interval chromatic number is the minimum number of independent sets consisting of consecutive vertices that are needed to partition the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Dana Neidinger , Douglas B. West

We consider large uniform labeled random graphs in different classes with prescribed decorations in their modular decomposition. Our main result is the estimation of the number of copies of every graph as an induced subgraph. As a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-25 Théo Lenoir