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A vertex colouring of a graph is called asymmetric if the only automorphism which preserves it is the identity. Tucker conjectured that if every automorphism of a connected, locally finite graph moves infinitely many vertices, then there is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-21 Florian Lehner , Monika Pilśniak , Marcin Stawiski

Let $G$ be an edge-coloured graph. The minimum colour degree $ \delta^c(G) $ of $G$ is the largest integer $k$ such that, for every vertex $v$, there are at least $k$ distinct colours on edges incident to $v$. We say that $G$ is properly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-11 Allan Lo

An edge-coloring of a hypergraph is {\em spanning} if every vertex sees every color used in the coloring. In this paper, we prove that for $k \geq 2r \geq 6$, in any spanning $k$-coloring of the edges of a complete $r$-partite $r$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-06 Luke Hawranick , Ruth Luo

We investigate proper $(a:b)$-fractional colorings of $n$-uniform hypergraphs, which generalize traditional integer colorings of graphs. Each vertex is assigned $b$ distinct colors from a set of $a$ colors, and an edge is properly colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Margarita Akhmejanova , Sean Longbrake

This paper extends the scenario of the Four Color Theorem in the following way. Let H(d,k) be the set of all k-uniform hypergraphs that can be (linearly) embedded into R^d. We investigate lower and upper bounds on the maximum (weak and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Carl Georg Heise , Konstantinos Panagiotou , Oleg Pikhurko , Anusch Taraz

Let $G$ be an edge-coloured graph. The minimum colour degree $\delta^c(G)$ of $G$ is the largest integer $k$ such that, for every vertex $v$, there are at least $k$ distinct colours on edges incident to $v$. We say that $G$ is properly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Allan Lo

The Total Colouring Conjecture suggests that $\Delta+3$ colours ought to suffice in order to provide a proper total colouring of every graph $G$ with maximum degree $\Delta$. Thus far this has been confirmed up to an additive constant…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-02 Jakub Przybyło

A classical result of Erd\H{o}s and Hajnal claims that for any integers $k, r, g \geq 2$ there is an $r$-uniform hypergraph of girth at least $g$ with chromatic number at least $k$. This implies that there are sparse hypergraphs such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-18 Maria Axenovich , Annette Karrer

Consider the following two ways to colour the vertices of a graph where the requirement that adjacent vertices get distinct colours is relaxed. A colouring has "defect" $d$ if each monochromatic component has maximum degree at most $d$. A…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-22 David R. Wood

Let ${\cal{F}}=\{F_1,F_2,\ldots\}$ be a sequence of graphs such that $F_n$ is a graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree at most $\Delta$. We show that there exists an absolute constant $C$ such that the vertices of any 2-edge-colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-05-30 Andrey Grinshpun , Gabor N. Sarkozy

A vertex-coloring of a hypergraph is conflict-free, if each edge contains a vertex whose color is not repeated on any other vertex of that edge. Let $f(r, \Delta)$ be the smallest integer $k$ such that each $r$-uniform hypergraph of maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Maria Axenovich , Jonathan Rollin

We show that the chromatic index of a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ satisfies Berge-F\"uredi conjectured bound $\mathrm{q}(\mathcal{H})\le \Delta([\mathcal{H}]_2)+1$ under certain hypotheses on the antirank $\mathrm{ar}(\mathcal{H})$ or on the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-15 Alain Bretto , Alain Faisant , François Hennecart

A mixed hypergraph is a triple $H=(V,\mathcal{C},\mathcal{D})$, where $V$ is a set of vertices, $\mathcal{C}$ and $\mathcal{D}$ are sets of hyperedges. A vertex-coloring of $H$ is proper if $C$-edges are not totally multicolored and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-08 Maria Axenovich , Enrica Cherubini , Torsten Ueckerdt

The paper deals with an extremal problem concerning equitable colorings of uniform hyper\-graph. Recall that a vertex coloring of a hypergraph $H$ is called proper if there are no monochro-matic edges under this coloring. A hypergraph is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-04 Margarita Akhmejanova , Dmitry Shabanov

In 1972, Erd\"{o}s - Faber - Lov\'{a}sz (EFL) conjectured that, if $\textbf{H}$ is a linear hypergraph consisting of $n$ edges of cardinality $n$, then it is possible to color the vertices with $n$ colors so that no two vertices with the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-19 Suresh M. H. , V. V. P. R. V. B. Suresh Dara

We prove that the acyclic chromatic number of a graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ is less than $2.835\Delta^{4/3}+\Delta$. This improves the previous upper bound, which was $50\Delta^{4/3}$. To do so, we draw inspiration from works by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-20 Jean-Sébastien Sereni , Jan Volec

Gy\'arf\'as famously showed that in every $r$-coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$, there is a monochromatic connected component with at least $\frac{n}{r-1}$ vertices. A recent line of study by Conlon, Tyomkyn, and the second…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-27 Lyuben Lichev , Sammy Luo

Mkrtchyan and Steffen [J. Graph Theory, 70 (4), 473--482, 2012] showed that every class II simple graph can be decomposed into a maximum $\Delta$-edge-colorable subgraph and a matching. They further conjectured that every graph $G$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-14 Yan Cao , Guangming Jing , Rong Luo , Vahan Mkrtchyan , Cun-Quan Zhang , Yue Zhao

In 1977, Borodin and Kostochka conjectured that every graph with maximum degree $\Delta \geq 9$ is $(\Delta-1)$-colourable, unless it contains a clique of size $\Delta$. In 1999, Reed confirmed the conjecture when $\Delta\geq 10^{14}$. We…

The (weak) chromatic number of a hypergraph $H$, denoted by $\chi(H)$, is the smallest number of colors required to color the vertices of $H$ so that no hyperedge of $H$ is monochromatic. For every $2\le k\le d+1$, denote by $\chi_L(k,d)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Seunghun Lee , Eran Nevo