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The work is devoted to one of the variations of the Hadwiger--Nelson problem on the chromatic number of the plane. In this formulation one needs to find for arbitrarily small $\varepsilon$ the least possible number of colors needed to color…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Vsevolod Voronov

In 1950 Edward Nelson asked the following simple-sounding question: \emph{How many colors are needed to color the Euclidean plane $\mathbb{E}^2$ such that no two points distance $1$ apart are identically colored?} We say that $1$ is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-17 Geoffrey Exoo , Dan Ismailescu

We study colorings of the hyperbolic plane, analogously to the Hadwiger-Nelson problem for the Euclidean plane. The idea is to color points using the minimum number of colors such that no two points at distance exactly $d$ are of the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Hugo Parlier , Camille Petit

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

Consider the graph $\mathbb{H}(d)$ whose vertex set is the hyperbolic plane, where two points are connected with an edge when their distance is equal to some $d>0$. Asking for the chromatic number of this graph is the hyperbolic analogue to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Evan DeCorte , Konstantin Golubev

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

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

We present results referring to the Hadwiger-Nelson problem which asks for the minimum number of colours needed to colour the plane with no two points at distance $1$ having the same colour. Exoo considered a more general problem concerning…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-11 Jarosław Grytczuk , Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Joanna Sokół , Krzysztof Węsek

We prove that if one colors each point of the Euclidean plane with one of five colors, then there exist two points of the same color that are either distance $1$ or distance $2$ apart.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Geoffrey Exoo , Dan Ismailescu

The famous Hadwiger-Nelson problem asks for the minimum number of colors needed to color the points of the Euclidean plane so that no two points unit distance apart are assigned the same color. In this note we consider a variant of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-01 Panna Gehér

We present a family of finite unit-distance graphs in the plane that are not 4-colourable, thereby improving the lower bound of the Hadwiger-Nelson problem. The smallest such graph that we have so far discovered has 1581 vertices.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-01 Aubrey D. N. J. de Grey

The Hadwiger-Nelson problem asks for the minimum number of colors, so that each point of the plane can be assigned a single color with the property that no two points unit-distance apart are identically colored. It is now known that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-31 Geoffrey Exoo , David Fisher , Dan Ismailescu

The chromatic number of the plane problem asks for the minimum number of colors so that each point of the plane can be assigned a single color with the property that no two points unit-distance apart are identically colored. It is now known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Geoffrey Exoo , Dan Ismailescu

Let $G$ be the unit distance graph in the plane. A well-known problem in combinatorial geometry is that of determining the chromatic number of $G$. It is known that $4\le \chi(G)\le 7$. The upper bound of 7 is obtained using tilings of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-28 James D. Currie , Roger B. Eggleton

In this work, the classical Nelson -- Hadwiger problem is studied which lies on the edge of combinatorial geometry and graph theory. It concerns colorings of distance graphs in $ {\mathbb R}^n $, i.e., graphs such that their vertices are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-04 Evgeniy Demekhin , Andrei Raigorodskii , Oleg Rubanov

Given a metric space and a set of distances, one constructs the associated distance graph by taking as vertices the points of the space and as edges the pairs whose distance is in the given set. It is a longstanding open question to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-05-14 Benoît Kloeckner

There is a famous problem in geometric graph theory to find the chromatic number of the unit distance graph on Euclidean space; it remains unsolved. A theorem of Erdos and De-Bruijn simplifies this problem to finding the maximum chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-12 Sean Fiscus , Eric Myzelev , Hongyi Zhang

We compute the Hadwiger-Nelson numbers $\chi(E^2)$ for certain number fields $E$, that is, the smallest number of colors required to color the points in the plane with coordinates in~$E$ so that no two points at distance $1$ from one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-24 David A. Madore

A k-distance r-coloring of a graph is a coloring of the vertices of the graph such that if the distance between 2 vertices x and y is less or equal to k, then x and y must have distinct colors. A planar graph is a graph that can be drawn…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Sara Al Hajjar

We give a new, simple proof for the lower bound of the chromatic number of the Euclidean plane with two forbidden distances, based on a graph with only 16 vertices.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-28 Jaan Parts
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