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We prove that for every $k$ and every $\varepsilon>0$, there exists $g$ such that every graph with tree-width at most $k$ and odd-girth at least $g$ has circular chromatic number at most $2+\varepsilon$.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-04-16 Alexandr V. Kostochka , Daniel Kral' , Jean-Sebastien Sereni , Michael Stiebitz

For a number $\ell\geq 2$, let $\mathcal{H}_{\ell}$ denote the family of graphs which have girth $2\ell$ and have no even hole with length greater than $2\ell$. Wu, Xu, and Xu conjectured that every graph in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Rong Chen

We show that for any natural number $k \ge 1$, any oriented graph $D$ of minimum semidegree at least $(3k- 2)/4$ contains an antidirected path of length $k$. In fact, a slightly weaker condition on the semidegree sequence of $D$ suffices,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-07 Tereza Klimošová , Maya Stein

An odd coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper coloring of $G$ such that for every non-isolated vertex $v$, there is a color appearing an odd number of times in $N_G(v)$. Odd coloring of graphs was studied intensively in recent few years. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-24 Hyemin Kwon , Boram Park

The \emph{choice number} of a graph $G$, denoted $\ch(G)$, is the minimum integer $k$ such that for any assignment of lists of size $k$ to the vertices of $G$, there is a proper colouring of $G$ such that every vertex is mapped to a colour…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-03 Jonathan A. Noel

For an oriented graph $D$ and a set $X\subseteq V(D)$, the inversion of $X$ in $D$ is the digraph obtained by reversing the orientations of the edges of $D$ with both endpoints in $X$. The inversion number of $D$, $\textrm{inv}(D)$, is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-23 Noga Alon , Emil Powierski , Michael Savery , Alex Scott , Elizabeth Wilmer

An acyclic homomorphism of a digraph $C$ to a digraph $D$ is a function $\rho\colon V(C)\to V(D)$ such that for every arc $uv$ of $C$, either $\rho(u)=\rho(v)$, or $\rho(u)\rho(v)$ is an arc of $D$ and for every vertex $v\in V(D)$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-02 Esmaeil Parsa , P. Mark Kayll

We prove that for every $d\geq 3$ the homomorphism order of the class of line graphs of finite graphs with maximal degree $d$ is universal. This means that every finite or countably infinite partially ordered set may be represented by line…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-22 Jiří Fiala , Jan Hubička , Yangjing Long

For a fixed digraph $\mathbb H$, the $\mathbb H$-coloring problem is the problem of deciding whether a given input digraph $\mathbb G$ admits a homomorphism to $\mathbb H$. The CSP dichotomy conjecture of Feder and Vardi is equivalent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-10-03 Jakub Bulín

Chris Lambie-Hanson proved recently that for every function $ f:\mathbb{N}\rightarrow \mathbb{N} $ there is an $ \aleph_1 $-chromatic graph $ G $ of size $ 2^{\aleph_1} $ such that every $ (n+3) $-chromatic subgraph of $ G $ has at least $…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-21 Attila Joó

A convex geometric graph $G$ is said to be packable if there exist edge-disjoint copies of $G$ in the complete convex geometric graph $K_n$ covering all but $o(n^2)$ edges. We prove that every convex geometric graph with cyclic chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-27 Jiaxi Nie , Erlang Surya , Ji Zeng

A majority coloring of a directed graph is a vertex-coloring in which every vertex has the same color as at most half of its out-neighbors. Kreutzer, Oum, Seymour, van der Zypen and Wood proved that every digraph has a majority 4-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Michael Anastos , Ander Lamaison , Raphael Steiner , Tibor Szabó

A (vertex) $\ell$-ranking is a colouring $\varphi:V(G)\to\mathbb{N}$ of the vertices of a graph $G$ with integer colours so that for any path $u_0,\ldots,u_p$ of length at most $\ell$, $\varphi(u_0)\neq\varphi(u_p)$ or…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Prosenjit Bose , Vida Dujmović , Mehrnoosh Javarsineh , Pat Morin

A proper vertex coloring $\varphi$ of graph $G$ is said to be odd if for each non-isolated vertex $x\in V(G)$ there exists a color $c$ such that $\varphi^{-1}(c)\cap N(x)$ is odd-sized. The minimum number of colors in any odd coloring of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-21 Yair Caro , Mirko Petruševski , Riste Škrekovski

Given a multigraph $G$ and a positive integer $t$, the distance-$t$ chromatic index of $G$ is the least number of colours needed for a colouring of the edges so that every pair of distinct edges connected by a path of fewer than $t$ edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-07 Ross J. Kang , Willem van Loon

A graph $G$ admits an $H$-tiling if it contains a collection of vertex-disjoint copies of $H$. In this paper, we confirm a conjecture proposed by K\"{u}hn, Osthus, and Treglown by showing that for any given graph $H$, there exists a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-25 Yuping Gao , Yilin Guo , Guanghui Wang , Lin-Peng Zhang

The dichromatic number $\vec\chi(D)$ of a digraph is the minimum number $k$ such that $V(D)$ can be partitioned into $k$ subsets, each inducing an acyclic digraph. The acyclic number $\vec\alpha(D)$ is the cardinality of a largest induced…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-20 Parinya Chalermsook , Harmender Gahlawat , Felix Klingelhoefer , Alantha Newman , Chaoliang Tang

We study $k$-colored kernels in $m$-colored digraphs. An $m$-colored digraph $D$ has $k$-colored kernel if there exists a subset $K$ of its vertices such that (i) from every vertex $v\notin K$ there exists an at most $k$-colored directed…

An oriented graph is a directed graph without any cycle of length at most 2. To push a vertex of a directed graph is to reverse the orientation of the arcs incident to that vertex. Klostermeyer and MacGillivray defined push graphs which are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-08-31 Sagnik Sen

A proper coloring $c$ of a simple graph $G$ is harmonious if, for every pair of distinct edges $uv,xy\in E(G)$, we have that $\{c(u),c(v)\}\neq \{c(x),c(y)\}$. The harmonious chromatic number of $G$, denoted by $h(G)$, is the least positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 Júlio Araújo , Manoel Campêlo , Beatriz Martins , Marcio C. Santos