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We consider the problem of extending partial edge colorings of hypercubes. In particular, we obtain an analogue of the positive solution to the famous Evans' conjecture on completing partial Latin squares by proving that every proper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-06 C. J. Casselgren , K. Markström , L. A. Pham

We consider the following type of question: Given a partial proper $d$-edge coloring of the $d$-dimensional hypercube $Q_d$, and lists of allowed colors for the non-colored edges of $Q_d$,can we extend the partial coloring to a proper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-06 C. J Casselgren , K. Markström , L. A. Pham

We consider the problem of extending partial edge colorings of iterated cartesian products of even cycles and paths, focusing on the case when the precolored edges satisfy either an Evans-type condition or is a matching. In particular, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Carl Johan Casselgren , Jonas B. Granholm , Fikre B. Petros

Casselgren, Markst\"orm, and Pham conjectured that any precolored dis\-tan\-ce-2 matching in the $d$-dimensional cube $Q_d$ with at most $d$ colors can be extended to a proper $d$-edge-coloring. In this paper, we prove this conjecture and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-02 Pál Bärnkopf

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

We investigate the problem of extending partial edge colorings in Cartesian products of graphs, with a particular focus on cases where the precolored edges form a matching. Casselgren, Granholm, and Petros conjectured that any precolored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Pál Bärnkopf , Ervin Győri

A strong edge-coloring $\varphi$ of a graph $G$ assigns colors to edges of $G$ such that $\varphi(e_1)\ne \varphi(e_2)$ whenever $e_1$ and $e_2$ are at distance no more than 1. It is equivalent to a proper vertex coloring of the square of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Daniel W. Cranston

Let $n \ge d \ge \ell \ge 1$ be integers, and denote the $n$-dimensional hypercube by $Q_n$. A coloring of the $\ell$-dimensional subcubes $Q_\ell$ in $Q_n$ is called a $Q_\ell$-coloring. Such a coloring is $d$-polychromatic if every $Q_d$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-08 Eugene Han , David Offner

We consider the problem of extending partial edge colorings of cartesian products of graphs. More specifically, we suggest the following Evans-type conjecture: If $G$ is a graph where every precoloring of at most $k$ precolored edges can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Carl Johan Casselgren , Fikre B. Petros , Samuel A. Fufa

A cycle is $2$-colored if its edges are properly colored by two distinct colors. A $(d,s)$-edge colorable graph $G$ is a $d$-regular graph that admits a proper $d$-edge coloring in which every edge of $G$ is in at least $s-1$ $2$-colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-05-28 Lan Anh Pham

We prove that every proper edge-coloring of the $n$-dimensional hypercube $Q_n$ contains a rainbow copy of every tree $T$ on at most $n$ edges. This result is best possible, as $Q_n$ can be properly edge-colored using only $n$ colors while…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-21 Nicholas Crawford , Maya Sankar , Carl Schildkraut , Sam Spiro

A total coloring of a graph $G$ is a coloring of its vertices and edges such that no adjacent vertices, edges, and no incident vertices and edges obtain the same color. An interval total $t$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a total coloring of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-12 Petros A. Petrosyan , Nerses A. Khachatryan

In this paper, we study the following two hypercube coloring problems: Given $n$ and $d$, find the minimum number of colors, denoted as ${\chi}'_{d}(n)$ (resp. ${\chi}_{d}(n)$), needed to color the vertices of the $n$-cube such that any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-14 Fang-Wei Fu , San Ling , Chaoping Xing

This paper studies edge-precoloring extensions in Cartesian products of graphs, motivated by a conjecture of Casselgren, Petros, and Fufa. We formulate a general hypothesis stating that if every edge-precoloring of $G$ and $H$ of sizes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-07 Pál Bärnkopf , Ervin Győri

A coloring of the $\ell$-dimensional faces of $Q_n$ is called $d$-polychromatic if every embedded $Q_d$ has every color on at least one face. Denote by $p^\ell(d)$ the maximum number of colors such that any $Q_n$ can be colored in this way.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-03 Evan Chen

We look at colourings of $r$-uniform hypergraphs, focusing our attention on unique colourability and gaps in the chromatic spectrum. The pattern of an edge $E$ in an $r$-uniform hypergraph $H$ whose vertices are coloured is the partition of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-04-17 Yair Caro , Josef Lauri , Christina Zarb

We investigate proper $(a:b)$-fractional colorings of $n$-uniform hypergraphs, which generalize traditional integer colorings of graphs. Each vertex is assigned $b$ distinct colors from a set of $a$ colors, and an edge is properly colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Margarita Akhmejanova , Sean Longbrake

Given an integer $1\leq j <n$, define the $(j)$-coloring of a $n$-dimensional hypercube $H_{n}$ to be the $2$-coloring of the edges of $H_{n}$ in which all edges in dimension $i$, $1\leq i \leq j$, have color $1$ and all other edges have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-08-10 Lina Xue , Weihua Yang , Shurong Zhang

Given a partial edge coloring of a complete graph $K_n$ and lists of allowed colors for the non-colored edges of $K_n$, can we extend the partial edge coloring to a proper edge coloring of $K_n$ using only colors from the lists? We prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Carl Johan Casselgren , Lan Anh Pham

In this note we prove the conjecture of \cite{HaWiWi} that every bipartite multigraph with integer edge delays admits an edge colouring with $d+1$ colours in the special case where $d=3$. A connection to the Brualdi-Ryser-Stein conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-29 Agelos Georgakopoulos
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