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As a fundamental metric for quantifying quantum advantage in non-local games, the quantum chromatic number reveals the power of entanglement in distributed tasks. In this paper, we investigate this parameter for $q$-ary Hamming graphs and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-12 Xiwang Cao , Keqin Feng , Hexiang Huang , Yulin Yang , Zihao Zhang

We compute the exact value of the quantum chromatic numbers of Hadamard graphs of order $n=2^N$ for $N$ a multiple of $4$ using the upper bound derived by Avis, Hasegawa, Kikuchi, and Sasaki, as well as an application of the Hoffman-like…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Meenakshi McNamara

We investigate quantum graphs with infinitely many vertices and edges without the common restriction on the geometry of the underlying metric graph that there is a positive lower bound on the lengths of its edges. Our central result is a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-10-30 Pavel Exner , Aleksey Kostenko , Mark Malamud , Hagen Neidhardt

One of the best known results in spectral graph theory is the following lower bound on the chromatic number due to Alan Hoffman, where mu_1 and mu_n are respectively the maximum and minimum eigenvalues of the adjacency matrix: chi >= 1 +…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-30 Clive Elphick , Pawel Wocjan

The quantum chromatic number, a generalization of the chromatic number, was first defined in relation to the non-local quantum coloring game. We generalize the former by defining the quantum $k$-distance chromatic number $\chi_{kq}(G)$ of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-05 Aida Abiad , Benjamin Jany

We define the independence ratio and the chromatic number for bounded, self-adjoint operators on an L^2-space by extending the definitions for the adjacency matrix of finite graphs. In analogy to the Hoffman bounds for finite graphs, we…

Functional Analysis · Mathematics 2014-10-07 Christine Bachoc , Evan DeCorte , Fernando Mario de Oliveira Filho , Frank Vallentin

The quantum chromatic number, $\chi_q(G)$, of a graph $G$ was originally defined as the minimal number of colors necessary in a quantum protocol in which two provers that cannot communicate with each other but share an entangled state can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Pawel Wocjan , Clive Elphick

Quantum graphs have attracted attention from mathematicians for some time. A quantum graph is defined by having a Laplacian on each edge of a metric graph and imposing boundary conditions at the vertices to get an eigenvalue problem. A…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2022-07-26 Mats-Erik Pistol , Pavel Kurasov

In [Ho] A.J. Hoffman proved a lower bound on the chromatic number of a graph in the terms of the largest and the smallest eigenvalues of its adjacency matrix. In this paper, we prove a higher dimensional version of this result and give a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-03 Konstantin Golubev

The study of quantum chromatic numbers of graphs is a hot research topic in recent years. However, the infinite family of graphs with known quantum chromatic numbers are rare, as far as we know, the only known such graphs (except for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-31 Xiwang Cao , Keqin Feng , Ying-Ying Tan

First, I introduce quantum graph theory. I also discuss a known lower bound on the independence numbers and derive from it an upper bound on the chromatic numbers of quantum graphs. Then, I construct a family of quantum graphs that can be…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2014-12-01 Steven Lu

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

A finite discrete graph is turned into a quantum (metric) graph once a finite length is assigned to each edge and the one-dimensional Laplacian is taken to be the operator. We study the dependence of the spectral gap (the first positive…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-03-28 Ram Band , Guillaume Lévy

Hoffman's bound is a well-known eigenvalue bound on the chromatic number of a graph. By interpreting this bound as a parameter, we show multiple applications of colorings attaining the bound (Hoffman colorings) for several notions of graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-27 Aida Abiad , Bart De Bruyn , Thijs van Veluw

We derive a number of upper and lower bounds for the first nontrivial eigenvalue of a finite quantum graph in terms of the edge connectivity of the graph, i.e., the minimal number of edges which need to be removed to make the graph…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Gregory Berkolaiko , James B. Kennedy , Pavel Kurasov , Delio Mugnolo

We consider the problem of finding universal bounds of "isoperimetric" or "isodiametric" type on the spectral gap of the Laplacian on a metric graph with natural boundary conditions at the vertices, in terms of various analytical and…

Spectral Theory · Mathematics 2016-08-24 James B. Kennedy , Pavel Kurasov , Gabriela Malenova , Delio Mugnolo

Hoffman's bound is a well-known spectral bound on the chromatic number of a graph, known to be tight for instance for bipartite graphs. While Hoffman colorings (colorings attaining the bound) were studied before for regular graphs, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-31 Aida Abiad , Wieb Bosma , Thijs van Veluw

A homomorphism from a graph $X$ to a graph $Y$ is an adjacency preserving mapping $f:V(X) \rightarrow V(Y)$. We consider a nonlocal game in which Alice and Bob are trying to convince a verifier with certainty that a graph $X$ admits a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2016-09-21 Laura Mančinska , David E. Roberson

It is known that, for an oriented hypergraph with (vertex) coloring number $\chi$ and smallest and largest normalized Laplacian eigenvalues $\lambda_1$ and $\lambda_N$, respectively, the inequality $\chi\geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Lies Beers , Raffaella Mulas

A lower bound on the chromatic number of a graph is derived by majorization of spectra of weighted adjacency matrices. These matrices are given by Hadamard products of the adjacency matrix and arbitrary Hermitian matrices.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Pawel Wocjan , Dominik Janzing , Thomas Beth
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