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In this series of papers, we advance Ramsey theory of colorings over partitions. In this part, a correspondence between anti-Ramsey properties of partitions and chain conditions of the natural forcing notions that homogenize colorings over…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Menachem Kojman , Assaf Rinot , Juris Steprans

The Gr\"{o}tzsch Theorem states that every triangle-free planar graph admits a proper $3$-coloring. Among many of its generalizations, the one of Gr\"{u}nbaum and Aksenov, giving $3$-colorability of planar graphs with at most three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Hoang La , Borut Lužar , Kenny Štorgel

Ramsey's theorem states that for all finite colorings of an infinite set, there exists an infinite homogeneous subset. What if we seek a homogeneous subset that is also order-equivalent to the original set? Let $S$ be a linearly ordered set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Joanna Boyland , William Gasarch , Nathan Hurtig , Robert Rust

In this article, we study a degenerate version of Ramsey's theorem for pairs and two colors ($\mathsf{RT}^2_2$), in which the homogeneous sets for color 1 are of bounded size. By $\mathsf{RT}^2_2$, it follows that every such coloring admits…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Quentin Le Houérou , Ludovic Patey

A Ramsey-like theorem is a statement of the form ``For every 2-coloring of $[\mathbb{N}]^2$, there exists an infinite set~$H \subseteq \mathbb{N}$ such that $[H]^2$ avoids some pattern''. We prove that none of these statements are…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Ahmed Mimouni , Ludovic Patey

This paper presents a path to proving the Four-Color Theorem that differs from the traditional "reducible configuration" method. By introducing concepts such as "outer boundary," "primitive set," "Property A," "knot," "valid pair group,"…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-26 Dagong Ding

The Four color problem is closely related to other branches of mathematics and practical applications. More than 20 of its reformulations are known, which connect this problem with problems of algebra, statistical mechanics and planning.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Sergey Kurapov , Maxim Davidovsky

In a simple graph $G$, we prove that the \textit{Hadwiger number}, $h(G)$, of the given graph $G$ always upper bounds the \textit{chromatic number}, $\chi(G)$, of the given graph $G$, that is, $\chi(G) \leq h(G)$. This simply stated problem…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2022-04-25 T Srinivasa Murthy

We prove that any continuous map of an N-dimensional simplex Delta_N with colored vertices to a d-dimensional manifold M must map r points from disjoint rainbow faces of Delta_N to the same point in M: For this we have to assume that N \geq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-19 Pavle V. M. Blagojević , Benjamin Matschke , Günter M. Ziegler

In what follows, essentially two things will be accomplished: Firstly, it will be proven that a version of the Arzel\`a--Ascoli theorem and the Fr\'echet--Kolmogorov theorem are equivalent to the axiom of countable choice for subsets of…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-03-23 Adrian Fellhauer

We show that the Lie's Theorem holds for Lie color algebras with a torsion-free abelian group $G$. We give an example to show that the torsion-free condition is necessary.

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Shouchuan Zhang

In this paper, we use a topological quantum field theory (TQFT) to define families of new homology theories of a $2$-dimensional CW complex of a smooth closed surface. The dimensions of these homology groups can be used to count the number…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2023-03-22 Scott Baldridge , Ben McCarty

In this paper, we prove a version of the Colored Tverberg Theorem with new constraints on the faces, in which we limit the number of faces with each one of the colors.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-17 Leandro Vicente Mauri , Denise de Mattos , Edivaldo Lopes dos Santos

B\'ar\'any's colorful generalization of Carath\'eodory's Theorem combines geometrical and combinatorial constraints. Kalai-Meshulam (2005) and Holmsen (2016) generalized B\'ar\'any's theorem by replacing color classes with matroid…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-25 Georg Loho , Raman Sanyal

A graph $H$ is common if its Ramsey multiplicity, i.e., the minimum number of monochromatic copies of $H$ contained in any $2$-edge-coloring of $K_n$, is asymptotically the same as the number of monochromatic copies in the random…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Daniel Kráľ , Matjaž Krnc , Ander Lamaison

We prove two distinct and natural refinements of a recent breakthrough result of Molloy (and a follow-up work of Bernshteyn) on the (list) chromatic number of triangle-free graphs. In both our results, we permit the amount of colour made…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-05 Ewan Davies , Rémi de Joannis de Verclos , Ross J. Kang , François Pirot

Let $G$ be a graph and let $C$ be a color set of cardinality $k$. Suppose $c \colon V(G) \to C$ is a (not necessarily proper) vertex coloring whose all color classes are $V_1$, $V_2$, $\dots$, $V_k$, each of which is nonempty. The vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-15 Saeed Shaebani

A collection of graphs is \textit{nearly disjoint} if every pair of them intersects in at most one vertex. We prove that if $G_1, \dots, G_m$ are nearly disjoint graphs of maximum degree at most $D$, then the following holds. For every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-31 Tom Kelly , Daniela Kühn , Deryk Osthus

In this paper we consider the following question in the spirit of Ramsey theory: Given $x\in A^\omega,$ where $A$ is a finite non-empty set, does there exist a finite coloring of the non-empty factors of $x$ with the property that no…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-26 Aldo de Luca , Elena V. Pribavkina , Luca Q. Zamboni

In arXiv:2209.04859 Andy Zucker and Chris Lambie-Hanson proved the consistency result for some coloring principle for the products of polish spaces by at most countable many colors. This principle easy implies Halpern and L\"auchli's…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-12-16 Nedeljko Stefanović