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We prove that up to two exceptions, every connected subcubic triangle-free graph has fractional chromatic number at most 11/4. This is tight unless further exceptional graphs are excluded, and improves the known bound on the fractional…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-31 Zdeněk Dvořák , Bernard Lidický , Luke Postle

The chromatic number of a directed graph is the minimum number of induced acyclic subdigraphs that cover its vertex set, and accordingly, the chromatic number of a tournament is the minimum number of transitive subtournaments that cover its…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-09 Felix Klingelhoefer , Alantha Newman

Here we prove that a graph without some three induced subgraphs has chromatic number at the most equal to its maximum clique size plus one. Further we show that the bounds are tight and give examples to show that each of the three forbidden…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-07-29 Medha Dhurandhar

The stack number of a directed acyclic graph $G$ is the minimum $k$ for which there is a topological ordering of $G$ and a $k$-coloring of the edges such that no two edges of the same color cross, i.e., have alternating endpoints along the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-29 Paul Jungeblut , Laura Merker , Torsten Ueckerdt

A cycle C(k1,k2,...,kn) is the oriented cycle formed of n blocks of lengths k1,k2,...,kn-1 and kn respectively. In 2018 Cohen et al. conjectured that for every positive integers k1,k2,...,kn there exists a constant g(k1,k2,...,kn) such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Hiba Ayoub , Soukaina Zayat , Darine Al-Mniny

We study the list-chromatic number and the coloring number of graphs, especially uncountable graphs. We show that the coloring number of a graph coincides with its list-chromatic number provided that the diamond principle holds. Under the…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Toshimichi Usuba

Let $k, d$ ($2d \leq k)$ be two positive integers. We generalize the well studied notions of $(k,d)$-colorings and of the circular chromatic number $\chi_c$ to signed graphs. This implies a new notion of colorings of signed graphs, and the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-16 Yingli Kang , Eckhard Steffen

A graph $G$ is $(d_1,d_2,d_3)$-colorable if the vertex set $V(G)$ can be partitioned into three subsets $V_1,V_2$ and $V_3$ such that for $i\in\{1,2,3\}$, the induced graph $G[V_i]$ has maximum vertex-degree at most $d_i$. So,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-03 Ligang Jin , Yingli Kang , Peipei Liu , Yingqian Wang

This paper proves that every planar graph without cycles of length 4, 7, or 9 is DP-3-colorable.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Yingli Kang , Ligang Jin , Xuding Zhu

A hole in a graph is an induced subgraph which is a cycle of length at least four. We prove that for every positive integer k, every triangle-free graph with sufficiently large chromatic number contains holes of k consecutive lengths.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-13 Alex Scott , Paul Seymour

We systematically determine circular chromatic index of small graphs and multigraphs with maximum degree $4$, $5$, $6$ (and also their number for a given small order). We construct several infinite families of such graphs with circular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-11 Ján Mazák , Filip Zrubák

The chromatic number of a graph is the minimum $k$ such that the graph has a proper $k$-coloring. There are many coloring parameters in the literature that are proper colorings that also forbid bicolored subgraphs. Some examples are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Ilkyoo Choi , Ringi Kim , Boram Park

The problem of finding the minimum number of colors to color a graph properly without containing any bicolored copy of a fixed family of subgraphs has been widely studied. Most well-known examples are star coloring and acyclic coloring of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Alaittin Kırtışoğlu , Lale Özkahya

We consider the extension to directed graphs of the concept of achromatic number in terms of acyclic vertex colorings. The achromatic number have been intensely studied since it was introduced by Harary, Hedetniemi and Prins in 1967. The…

We prove a strong dichotomy result for countably-infinite oriented graphs; that is, we prove that for all countably-infinite oriented graphs $G$, either (i) there is a countably-infinite tournament $K$ such that $G\not\subseteq K$, or (ii)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-02 Alistair Benford , Louis DeBiasio , Paul Larson

A graph $G$ is called chromatic-choosable if $\chi(G)=ch(G)$. A natural problem is to determine the minimum number of vertices in a $k$-chromatic non-$k$-choosable graph. It was conjectured by Ohba, and proved by Noel, Reed and Wu that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-01 Jialu Zhu , Xuding Zhu

We prove the following conjecture of S. Thomass\'e: for every (potentially infinite) digraph $ D $ it is possible to iteratively reverse directed cycles in such a way that the dichromatic number of the final reorientation $ D^{*} $ of $ D $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-22 Paul Ellis , Attila Joó , Dániel T. Soukup

It is well known that for any integers $k$ and $g$, there is a graph with chromatic number at least $k$ and girth at least $g$. In 1960's, Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal conjectured that for any $k$ and $g$, there exists a number $h(k,g)$, such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Bojan Mohar , Hehui Wu

We investigate the local chromatic number of shift graphs and prove that it is close to their chromatic number. This implies that the gap between the directed local chromatic number of an oriented graph and the local chromatic number of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-17 Gábor Simonyi , Gábor Tardos

An $acyclic$ edge coloring of a graph is a proper edge coloring such that there are no bichromatic cycles. The \emph{acyclic chromatic index} of a graph is the minimum number k such that there is an acyclic edge coloring using k colors and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Manu Basavaraju , L. Sunil Chandran , Manoj Kummini