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Each of several possible definitions of local injectivity for a homomorphism of an oriented graph $G$ to an oriented graph $H$ leads to an injective oriented colouring problem. For each case in which such a problem is solvable in polynomial…

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A graph $G$ admits an $H$-tiling if it contains a collection of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$. In this paper, we confirm a conjecture proposed by K\"{u}hn, Osthus, and Treglown by showing that for any given graph $H$, there exists a…

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Given an integer $k>4$ and a graph $H$, we prove that, assuming P$\neq$NP, the List-$k$-Coloring Problem restricted to $H$-free graphs can be solved in polynomial time if and only if either every component of $H$ is a path on at most three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-08 Maria Chudnovsky , Sepehr Hajebi , Sophie Spirkl

Let $G$ be a plane graph with outer cycle $C$ and let $(L(v):v\in V(G))$ be a family of sets such that $|L(v)|\ge 5$ for every $v\in V(G)$. By an $L$-coloring of a subgraph $J$ of $G$ we mean a (proper) coloring $\phi$ of $J$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Luke Postle , Robin Thomas

We construct a family of countexamples to a conjecture of Galvin [5], which stated that for any $n$-vertex, $d$-regular graph $G$ and any graph $H$ (possibly with loops), \[\hom(G,H) \leq \max\left\lbrace\hom(K_{d,d}, H)^{\frac{n}{2d}},…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-09 Luke Sernau

The competition graph of a digraph D is a (simple undirected) graph which has the same vertex set as D and has an edge between x and y if and only if there exists a vertex v in D such that (x,v) and (y,v) are arcs of D. For any graph G, G…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-03-01 Jung Yeun Lee , Suh-Ryung Kim , Yoshio Sano

A \emph{majority coloring} of a digraph is a coloring of its vertices such that for each vertex $v$, at most half of the out-neighbors of $v$ has the same color as $v$. A digraph $D$ is \emph{majority $k$-choosable} if for any assignment of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Marcin Anholcer , Bartłomiej Bosek , Jarosław Grytczuk

Alternating Euler trails has been extensively studied for its diverse applications, for example, in genetic and molecular biology, social science and channel assignment in wireless networks, as well as for theoretical reasons. We will…

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We study the complexity of a class of promise graph homomorphism problems. For a fixed graph H, the H-colouring problem is to decide whether a given graph has a homomorphism to H. By a result of Hell and Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il, this problem is…

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If each vertex of an acyclic digraph has indegree at most $i$ and outdegree at most $j$, then it is called an $(i,j)$ digraph, which was introduced by Hefner~{\it et al.}~(1991). Whereas Hefner~{\it et al.} characterized $(i,j)$ digraphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-18 Hojin Chu , Suh-Ryung Kim

A cover of a graph $G$ is a graph $H$ with vertex set $V(H) = \bigcup_{v \in V(G)} L_{v}$, where $L_{v} = \{v\} \times [s]$, and the edge set $M = \bigcup_{uv \in E(G)} M_{uv}$, where $M_{uv}$ is a matching between $L_{u}$ and $L_{v}$. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Huihui Fang , Danjun Huang , Tao Wang , Weifan Wang

For a fixed integer, the $k$-Colouring problem is to decide if the vertices of a graph can be coloured with at most $k$ colours for an integer $k$, such that no two adjacent vertices are coloured alike. A graph $G$ is $H$-free if $G$ does…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-24 Barnaby Martin , Daniel Paulusma , Siani Smith

For graphs $G$ and $H$, an {\em $H$-colouring} of $G$ (or {\em homomorphism} from $G$ to $H$) is a function from the vertices of $G$ to the vertices of $H$ that preserves adjacency. $H$-colourings generalize such graph theory notions as…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-06-15 John Engbers , David Galvin

Consider edge colorings of digraphs where edges $v_1 v_2$ and $v_2 v_3$ have different colors. This coloring induces a vertex coloring by sets of edge colors, in which edge $v_1 v_2$ in the graph implies that the set color of $v_1$ contains…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-10 Seth Chaiken

A graph is a cograph if it does not contain a 4-vertex path as an induced subgraph. An $(s, k)$-polar partition of a graph $G$ is a partition $(A, B)$ of its vertex set such that $A$ induces a complete multipartite graph with at most $s$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-19 F. Esteban Contreras-Mendoza , César Hernández-Cruz

A $k$-uniform hypergraph $H = (V, E)$ is $k$-partite if $V$ can be partitioned into $k$ sets $V_1, \ldots, V_k$ such that every edge in $E$ contains precisely one vertex from each $V_i$. We call such a graph $n$-balanced if $|V_i| = n$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Abhishek Dhawan

Let $D=(V,A)$ be a digraph and consider an arc subset $A'\subseteq A$ and an exhaustive mapping $\phi: A\to A'$ such that $(i)$ the set of heads of $A'$ is $H(A')=V$; $(ii)$ the map fixes the elements of $A'$, that is, $\phi|A'=Id$, and for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-01-29 Camino Balbuena , Hortensia Galeana-Sánchez , Mukuy-kak Guevara

A graph G is (d_1,..,d_l)-colorable if the vertex set of G can be partitioned into subsets V_1,..,V_l such that the graph G[V_i] induced by the vertices of V_i has maximum degree at most d_i for all 1 <= i <= l. In this paper, we focus on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-06 Mickael Montassier , Pascal Ochem