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The "clustered chromatic number" of a class of graphs is the minimum integer $k$ such that for some integer $c$ every graph in the class is $k$-colourable with monochromatic components of size at most $c$. We prove that for every graph $H$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-17 Sergey Norin , Alex Scott , Paul Seymour , David R. Wood

A classical result of Robertson and Seymour (1986) states that the treewidth of a graph is linearly tied to its separation number: the smallest integer $k$ such that, for every weighting of the vertices, the graph admits a balanced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-23 Maria Chudnovsky , Robert Hickingbotham

In this paper we study the existence of homomorphisms $G\to H$ using semidefinite programming. Specifically, we use the vector chromatic number of a graph, defined as the smallest real number $t \ge 2$ for which there exists an assignment…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-29 Chris Godsil , David E. Roberson , Brendan Rooney , Robert Šámal , Antonios Varvitsiotis

A graph $G$ is $k$-vertex-critical if $G$ has chromatic number $k$ but every proper induced subgraph of $G$ has chromatic number less than $k$. The study of $k$-vertex-critical graphs for graph classes is an important topic in algorithmic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-21 Qingqiong Cai , Jan Goedgebeur , Shenwei Huang

Lov\'{a}sz proved that two graphs $G$ and $H$ are isomorphic if $\hom(K,G) = \hom(K,H)$ for all graphs $K$, where $\hom(G_1,G_2)$ denotes the number of homomorphisms from $G_1$ to $G_2$. Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k showed that it suffices to count…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Andrea Jiménez , Benjamin Moore , Daniel A. Quiroz , Youngho Yoo

We show that the edges of every 3-connected planar graph except $K_4$ can be colored with two colors in such a way that the graph has no color preserving automorphisms. Also, we characterize all graphs which have the property that their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-26 Erica Flapan , Sarah Rundell , Madeline Wyse

Let $H=(V(H),E(H))$ be a graph. A $k$-coloring of $H$ is a mapping $\pi : V(H) \longrightarrow \{1,2,\ldots, k\}$, if each color class induces a $K_2$-free subgraph. For a graph $G$ of order at least $2$, a $G$-free $k$-coloring of $H$, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-13 Yaser Rowshan

We investigate the local chromatic number of shift graphs and prove that it is close to their chromatic number. This implies that the gap between the directed local chromatic number of an oriented graph and the local chromatic number of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-17 Gábor Simonyi , Gábor Tardos

The chromatic number of a graph is the minimum $k$ such that the graph has a proper $k$-coloring. There are many coloring parameters in the literature that are proper colorings that also forbid bicolored subgraphs. Some examples are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Ilkyoo Choi , Ringi Kim , Boram Park

We show that there is a constant $C$ such that for every $\varepsilon>0$ any $2$-coloured $K_n$ with minimum degree at least $n/4+\varepsilon n$ in both colours contains a complete subgraph on $2t$ vertices where one colour class forms a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-04 António Girão , David Munhá Correia

We are dealing with the complexity of the homeomorphism equivalence relation on some classes of metrizable compacta from the viewpoint of invariant descriptive set theory. We prove that the homeomorphism equivalence relation of absolute…

General Topology · Mathematics 2020-12-15 Jan Dudák , Benjamin Vejnar

A vertex of a graph is bisimplicial if the set of its neighbors is the union of two cliques; a graph is quasi-line if every vertex is bisimplicial. A recent result of Chudnovsky and Seymour asserts that every non-empty even-hole-free graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-06-24 Zi-Xia Song

We prove that graphs excluding a fixed immersion have bounded nonrepetitive chromatic number. More generally, we prove that if $H$ is a fixed planar graph that has a planar embedding with all the vertices with degree at least 4 on a single…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-15 Paul Wollan , David R. Wood

We generalize Brooks's theorem to show that if $G$ is a Borel graph on a standard Borel space $X$ of degree bounded by $d \geq 3$ which contains no $(d+1)$-cliques, then $G$ admits a $\mu$-measurable $d$-coloring with respect to any Borel…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-01-20 Clinton T. Conley , Andrew S. Marks , Robin Tucker-Drob

The basis number of a graph $G$ is the minimum $k$ such that the cycle space of $G$ is generated by a family of cycles using each edge at most $k$ times. A classical result of Mac Lane states that planar graphs are exactly graphs with basis…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Colin Geniet , Ugo Giocanti

A topological space is almost locally compact if it contains a dense locally compact subspace. We generalize a result from \cite{Ma}, showing that isomorphism on Borel classes of almost locally compact Polish metric structures is always…

Logic · Mathematics 2025-08-12 Maciej Malicki

In this paper, we study dynamics of maps on quasi-graphs characterizing their invariant measures. In particular, we prove that every invariant measure of quasi-graph map with zero topological entropy has discrete spectrum. Additionally, we…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2022-03-18 Jian Li , Piotr Oprocha , Guohua Zhang

We prove a new generalisation of Ramsey's theorem by showing that every $2$-edge-coloured graph with sufficiently large minimum degree contains a monochromatic induced subgraph whose minimum degree remains large. From this, we also derive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-17 Arnab Char , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta

In this paper we develop unifying graph theoretic techniques to study the dynamics and the structure of the space of homeomorphisms and the space of self-maps of the Cantor space. Using our methods, we give characterizations which determine…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2023-05-08 Nilson C. Bernardes , Udayan B. Darji

We prove that, for every graph $F$ with at least one edge, there is a constant $c_F$ such that there are graphs of arbitrarily large chromatic number and the same clique number as $F$ in which every $F$-free induced subgraph has chromatic…