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The Hadwiger--Nelson problem is about determining the chromatic number of the plane (CNP), defined as the minimum number of colours needed to colour the plane so that no two points of distance 1 have the same colour. In this paper we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-21 Péter Ágoston

The determination of the quantum chromatic number of graphs has attracted considerable attention recently. However, there are few families of graphs whose quantum chromatic numbers are determined. A notable exception is the family of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-02 Tao Luo , Yu Ning , Xiande Zhang

We present a tiling of more than 99.985698% of the Euclidean plane with six colors, reducing the previous record for uncovered fraction of the plane by about 12.8%. We also present a tiling of more than 95.99% of the plane with five colors.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-27 Jaan Parts

We establish a geometric framework by transforming a graph $G$ into a $(d-1)$-dimensional CW complex $U^{d-1}(G)$. This construction is achieved by systematically attaching $i$-spheres ($2 \le i \le d-1$) to $G$ according to specific rules,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-13 Qiming Fang , Sihong Shao

We discuss some problems related to induced subgraphs. The first problem is about getting a good upper bound for the chromatic number in terms of the clique number for graphs in which every induced cycle has length $3$ or $4$. The second…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Vaidy Sivaraman

Let Gn be the graph on n-dimensional Euclidean space connecting points of rational Euclidean distance. It is consistent relative to an inaccessible cardinal that ZF+DC holds and G3 has countable chromatic number, yet G4 has uncountable…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Jindrich Zapletal

The chromatic number of a subset of Euclidean space is the minimal number of colors sufficient for coloring all points of this subset in such a way that any two points at the distance 1 have different colors. We give new upper bounds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Roman Prosanov

We consider circular version of the famous Nelson-Hadwiger problem. It is know that 4 colors are necessary and 7 colors suffice to color the euclidean plane in such a way that points at distance one get different colors. In $r$-circular…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-08 Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski

Efficient algorithms are presented for constructing spanners in geometric intersection graphs. For a unit ball graph in R^k, a (1+\epsilon)-spanner is obtained using efficient partitioning of the space into hypercubes and solving…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2012-10-10 Martin Furer , Shiva Prasad Kasiviswanathan

Graph drawing research traditionally focuses on producing geometric embeddings of graphs satisfying various aesthetic constraints. After the geometric embedding is specified, there is an additional step that is often overlooked or ignored:…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Michael B. Dillencourt , David Eppstein , Michael T. Goodrich

The unit distance graph $G_{\mathbb{R}^d}^1$ is the infinite graph whose nodes are points in $\mathbb{R}^d$, with an edge between two points if the Euclidean distance between these points is 1. The 2-dimensional version $G_{\mathbb{R}^2}^1$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-14 Remie Janssen , Leonie van Steijn

The Euclidean dimension a graph $G$ is defined to be the smallest integer $d$ such that the vertices of $G$ can be located in $\mathbb{R}^d$ in such a way that two vertices are unit distance apart if and only if they are adjacent in $G$. In…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2015-01-05 Jin Hyup Hong , Dan Ismailescu

A graph is pseudo-outerplanar if each of its blocks has an embedding in the plane so that the vertices lie on a fixed circle and the edges lie inside the disk of this circle with each of them crossing at most one another. In this paper, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-26 Xin Zhang , Guizhen Liu

Map vertices of a graph to (not necessarily distinct) points of the plane so that two adjacent vertices are mapped at least a unit distance apart. The plane-width of a graph is the minimum diameter of the image of the vertex set over all…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-01-08 Marcin Kaminski , Paul Medvedev , Martin Milanic

Every graph G can be embedded in a Euclidean space as a two-distance set. The Euclidean representation number of G is the smallest dimension in which G is representable by such an embedding. We consider spherical and J-spherical…

Metric Geometry · Mathematics 2019-06-26 Oleg R. Musin

We consider the Hadwiger-Nelson problem on the chromatic number of the plane under conditions of coloring a map containing a finite number of vertices in any bounded region. Woodall (1973) and Townsend (1981) showed that at least 6 colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Georgy Sokolov , Vsevolod Voronov

d-spheres in graph theory are inductively defined as graphs for which all unit spheres S(x) are (d-1)-spheres and that the removal of one vertex renders the graph contractible. Eulerian d-spheres are geometric d-spheres which are d+1…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-14 Oliver Knill

In this paper we introduce the notion of $\Sigma$-colouring of a graph $G$: For given subsets $\Sigma(v)$ of neighbours of $v$, for every $v\in V(G)$, this is a proper colouring of the vertices of $G$ such that, in addition, vertices that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-28 Omid Amini , Louis Esperet , Jan van den Heuvel

We investigate the notion of quantum chromatic number of a graph, which is the minimal number of colours necessary in a protocol in which two separated provers can convince an interrogator with certainty that they have a colouring of the…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2011-11-09 Peter J. Cameron , Ashley Montanaro , Michael W. Newman , Simone Severini , Andreas Winter

Let $G$ be the graph with the points of the unit sphere in $\mathbb{R}^3$ as its vertices, by defining two unit vectors to be adjacent if they are orthogonal as vectors. We present a proof, based on work of Hales and Straus chromatic number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-04 C. D. Godsil , J. Zaks