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A colouring of a graph is "nonrepetitive" if for every path of even order, the sequence of colours on the first half of the path is different from the sequence of colours on the second half. We show that planar graphs have nonrepetitive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Vida Dujmović , Louis Esperet , Gwenaël Joret , Bartosz Walczak , David R. Wood

The investigation of colour symmetries for periodic and aperiodic systems consists of two steps. The first concerns the computation of the possible numbers of colours and is mainly combinatorial in nature. The second is algebraic and…

Disordered Systems and Neural Networks · Physics 2007-05-23 Michael Baake , Uwe Grimm , Max Scheffer

Edge-coloring problems with forbidden patterns are decision problems asking to find an edge-coloring of the input graph which avoids a homomorphism from a fixed forbidden family of edge-colored graphs. In the precolored version of these…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexey Barsukov , Antoine Mottet , Davide Perinti

This paper presents a path to proving the Four-Color Theorem that differs from the traditional "reducible configuration" method. By introducing concepts such as "outer boundary," "primitive set," "Property A," "knot," "valid pair group,"…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Dagong Ding

There are three long-known types of restricted integer compositions whose counts match the Fibonacci sequence:\ one from ancient India and two from 19th century England. We give proofs of these enumeration results using tiling arguments and…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2025-09-08 Brian Hopkins

Many variations of the classical graph coloring model have been intensively studied due to their multiple applications; scheduling problems and aircraft assignments, for instance, motivate the robust coloring problem. This model gets to…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-05-17 Delia Garijo , Alberto Márquez , Rafael Robles

A composition of a nonnegative integer (n) is a sequence of positive integers whose sum is (n). A composition is palindromic if it is unchanged when its terms are read in reverse order. We provide a generating function for the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Sergey Kitaev , Tyrrell B. McAllister , T. Kyle Petersen

The Hales-Jewett Theorem states that any $r$-colouring of $[m]^n$ contains a monochromatic combinatorial line if $n$ is large enough. Shelah's proof of the theorem implies that for $m = 3$ there always exists a monochromatic combinatorial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-13 Nina Kamčev , Christoph Spiegel

In this paper, we give a general framework for the Boltzmann generation of colored objects belonging to combinatorial constructible classes. We propose an intuitive notion called profiled objects which allows the sampling of size-colored…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-11-17 Olivier Bodini , Alice Jacquot

Restricted star colouring is a variant of star colouring introduced to design heuristic algorithms to estimate sparse Hessian matrices. For $k\in\mathbb{N}$, a $k$-restricted star colouring ($k$-rs colouring) of a graph $G$ is a function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Shalu M. A. , Cyriac Antony

In this paper, we propose a novel multi-color balance adjustment for color constancy. The proposed method, called "n-color balancing," allows us not only to perfectly correct n target colors on the basis of corresponding ground truth colors…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2021-05-24 Teruaki Akazawa , Yuma Kinoshita , Hitoshi Kiya

A first step in investigating colour symmetries of periodic and nonperiodic patterns is determining the number of colours which allow perfect colourings of the pattern under consideration. A perfect colouring is one where each symmetry of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-07-30 Dirk Frettlöh

Colored operads were introduced in the 1970's for the purpose of studying homotopy invariant algebraic structures on topological spaces. In this paper we introduce colored operads in motivic stable homotopy theory. Our main motivation is to…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2014-05-28 Javier J. Gutiérrez , Oliver Röndigs , Markus Spitzweck , Paul Arne Østvær

Inspired by earlier results about proper and polychromatic coloring of hypergraphs, we investigate such colorings of directed hypergraphs, that is, hypergraphs in which the vertices of each hyperedge is partitioned into two parts, a tail…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-24 Balázs Keszegh

In a recent paper, Thejitha and Fathima introduced the overcolored partition function $\bar{a}_{r,s}(n)$, which enumerates overpartitions in which even parts may appear in one of $r$ colors and odd parts in one of $s$ colors, for fixed…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Imdadul Hussain , Suparno Ghoshal , Arijit Jana

In the List $k$-Coloring problem we are given a graph whose every vertex is equipped with a list, which is a subset of $\{1,\ldots,k\}$. We need to decide if $G$ admits a proper coloring, where every vertex receives a color from its list.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-29 Marta Piecyk , Paweł Rzążewski

Recently, Hirschhorn and Sellers defined the partition function $a_r(n)$, which counts the number of partitions of $n$ wherein even parts come in only one color, while the odd parts may appear in one of $r$-colors for fixed $r\ge1$. The aim…

Number Theory · Mathematics 2025-11-19 M. P. Thejitha , S. N. Fathima

We introduce a new notion of resilience for constraint satisfaction problems, with the goal of more precisely determining the boundary between NP-hardness and the existence of efficient algorithms for resilient instances. In particular, we…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-06-13 Jeremy Kun , Lev Reyzin

Graph colorings have been of interest to mathematicians for a long time, but relatively recently, social scientists have also found them to be interesting tools for studying group behavior. In the last 20 years, scientists have begun to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-20 Matthew I. Jones , Zachary Winkeler

We use the combinatorial properties of central sets to prove a result about the existence of exponential monochromatic patterns, in the style of Hindman's Finite Sums Theorem. More precisely, we prove that for every finite coloring of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-30 Mauro Di Nasso , Mariaclara Ragosta