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We raise some questions about graph polynomials, highlighting concepts and phenomena that may merit consideration in the development of a general theory. Our questions are mainly of three types: When do graph polynomials have reduction…

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For a simple graph $G$, let $\chi(G,x)$ denote the chromatic polynomial of $G$. This manuscript introduces some polynomials which are related to chromatic polynomial and their relations.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Fengming Dong

We extend a recent construction concerning polychromatic colorings of hereditary hypergraph families. For every integer $h\ge 4$ we construct a $(2h-1)$-uniform hypergraph which has no polychromatic $3$-coloring, but all of whose $h$-heavy…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Dömötör Pálvölgyi

In this paper, we consider some general properties of block graphs as well as the equitable coloring problem in this class of graphs. In the first part we establish the relation between two structural parameters for general block graphs. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Hanna Furmańczyk , Vahan Mkrtchyan

Given a graph $H$, let us denote by $f_\chi(H)$ and $f_\ell(H)$, respectively, the maximum chromatic number and the maximum list chromatic number of $H$-minor-free graphs. Hadwiger's famous coloring conjecture from 1943 states that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-11 Olivier Fischer , Raphael Steiner

A graph is called to be uniquely list colorable, if it admits a list assignment which induces a unique list coloring. We study uniquely list colorable graphs with a restriction on the number of colors used. In this way we generalize a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Y. G. Ganjali , M. Ghebleh , H. Hajiabolhassan , M. Mirzazadeh , B. S. Sadjad

A vertex colouring of a graph is \emph{nonrepetitive} if there is no path for which the first half of the path is assigned the same sequence of colours as the second half. The \emph{nonrepetitive chromatic number} of a graph $G$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Vida Dujmović , Fabrizio Frati , Gwenaël Joret , David R. Wood

The list Ramsey number $R_{\ell}(H,k)$, recently introduced by Alon, Buci\'c, Kalvari, Kuperwasser, and Szab\'o, is a list-coloring variant of the classical Ramsey number. They showed that if $H$ is a fixed $r$-uniform hypergraph that is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-25 Jacob Fox , Xiaoyu He , Sammy Luo , Max Wenqiang Xu

The notion of $S$-labeling of graphs, where $S$ is a subset of a symmetric group, was introduced in 2019 by Jin, Wong, and Zhu. This notion provides the framework for a common generalization of various well studied notions of graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-22 Samantha L. Dahlberg , Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock

Thomassen proved that any plane graph of girth 5 is list-colorable from any list assignment such that all vertices have lists of size two or three and the vertices with list of size two are all incident with the outer face and form an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-09-15 Zdenek Dvorak , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

Weak diameter coloring of graphs recently attracted attention partially due to its connection to asymptotic dimension of metric spaces. We consider weak diameter list-coloring of graphs in this paper. Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Norin proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Joshua Crouch , Chun-Hung Liu

We will extend the Fourier restriction inequality for quadratic hypersurfaces obtained by Strichartz. We will consider the case where the hypersurface is a graph of a certain real polynomial which is a sum of one-dimensional monomials. It…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kei Morii

We complete the construction of raising and lowering operators, given in a previous work, for the orthogonal polynomials of hypergeometric type on non-homogeneous lattice, and extend these operators to the generalized orthogonal…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Lorente

By coloring a signed graph by signed colors, one obtains the signed chromatic polynomial of the signed graph. For each signed graph we construct graded cohomology groups whose graded Euler characteristic yields the signed chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Zhiyun Cheng , Ziyi Lei , Yitian Wang , Yanguo Zhang

The Tutte polynomial is a generalization of the chromatic polynomial of graph colorings. Here we present an extension called the rooted Tutte polynomial, which is defined on a graph where one or more vertices are colored with prescribed…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Y. Wu , C. King , W. T. Lu

We generalize the Five Color Theorem by showing that it extends to graphs with two crossings. Furthermore, we show that if a graph has three crossings, but does not contain K_6 as a subgraph, then it is also 5-colorable. We also consider…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Bogdan Oporowski , David Zhao

Richard Stanley defined the chromatic symmetric function $X_G$ of a graph $G$ and asked whether there are non-isomorphic trees $T$ and $U$ with $X_T=X_U$. We study variants of the chromatic symmetric function for rooted graphs, where we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Nicholas A. Loehr , Gregory S. Warrington

A graph is outer-1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane so that all vertices are on the outer face and each edge is crossed at most once. In this paper, we completely determine the edge chromatic number of outer 1-planar graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-15 Xin Zhang

We use a localisation technique to study orthogonally additive polynomials on Banach lattices. We derive alternative characterisations for orthogonal additivity of polynomials and orthosymmetry of $m$-linear mappings. We prove that an…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2021-07-23 Christopher Boyd , Raymond A. Ryan , Nina Snigireva

A simpler proof of the four color theorem is presented. The proof was reached using a series of equivalent theorems. First the maximum number of edges of a planar graph is obatined as well as the minimum number of edges for a complete…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Fayez A. Alhargan