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Quantum graphs are an operator space generalization of classical graphs that have emerged in different branches of mathematics including operator theory, non-commutative topology and quantum information theory. In this paper, we obtain…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2021-12-06 Priyanga Ganesan

The (n,k)-star graph is a very important computer modelling. The independent number and chromatic number of a graph are two important parameters in graph theory. However, we did not know the values of this two parameters of the (n,k)-star…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-15 Fu-Tao Hu

Three new graph invariants are introduced which may be measured from a quantum graph state and form examples of a framework under which other graph invariants can be constructed. Each invariant is based on distinguishing a different number…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2019-11-20 P. W. Mills , R. P. Rundle , J. H. Samson , Simon J. Devitt , Todd Tilma , V. M. Dwyer , Mark J. Everitt

We propose a new coloring game on a graph, called the independence coloring game, which is played by two players with opposite goals. The result of the game is a proper coloring of vertices of a graph $G$, and Alice's goal is that as few…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Boštjan Brešar , Daša Štesl

Consider a graph on the non-singular matrices over a finite field, in which two distinct non-singular matrices are joined by an edge whenever their sum is singular. We prove an upper bound for the independence number of this graph. As a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-15 Bogdan Nica

By Brook's Theorem, every n-vertex graph of maximum degree at most Delta >= 3 and clique number at most Delta is Delta-colorable, and thus it has an independent set of size at least n/Delta. We give an approximate characterization of graphs…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-11-05 Zdenek Dvorak , Bernard Lidicky

We formulate a notion of the quantum automorphism group of a $2$-graph. After some preliminary computations, we define quantum isomorphism between a pair of $2$-graphs. We produce a `non-trivial' example of a pair of $2$-graphs that are not…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2025-04-01 Soumalya Joardar , Atibur Rahaman , Jitender Sharma

Graph parameters such as the clique number, the chromatic number, and the independence number are central in many areas, ranging from computer networks to linguistics to computational neuroscience to social networks. In particular, the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-12-15 Fabian Frei , Edith Hemaspaandra , Jörg Rothe

The total Betti number of the independence complex of a graph is an intriguing graph invariant. Kalai and Meshulam have raised the question on its relation to cycles and the chromatic number of a graph, and a recent conjecture on that theme…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-31 Alexander Engstrom

Let $\Gamma$ be the graph whose vertices are the chambers of the finite projective $3$-space PG$(3,q)$, with two vertices being adjacent if and only if the corresponding chambers are in general position. We show that a maximal independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-20 Philipp Heering , Klaus Metsch

An independent set $I_c$ is a \textit{critical independent set} if $|I_c| - |N(I_c)| \geq |J| - |N(J)|$, for any independent set $J$. The \textit{critical independence number} of a graph is the cardinality of a maximum critical independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-12-14 Craig Eric Larson

We prove several results about three families of graphs. For queen graphs, defined from the usual moves of a chess queen, we find the edge-chromatic number in almost all cases. In the unproved case, we have a conjecture supported by a vast…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Witold Jarnicki , Wendy Myrvold , Peter Saltzman , Stan Wagon

Problems based on the structure of graphs -- for example finding cliques, independent sets, or colourings -- are of fundamental importance in classical complexity. Defining well-formulated decision problems for quantum graphs, which are an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2025-01-27 Eric Culf , Arthur Mehta

It is well known that when a pair of random variables is statistically independent, it has no-correlation (zero covariance, $E[XY] - E[X]E[Y] = 0$), and that the converse is not true. However, if both of these random variables take only two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2018-10-23 Toru Ohira

We show that the number of independent sets in cocomparability graphs can be counted in linear time, as can counting cliques in comparability graphs. By contrast, counting cliques in cocomparabilty graphs and counting independent sets in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-30 Martin Dyer , Haiko Müller

We investigate the extent to which the $k$-coloring graph $\mathcal{C}_{k}(G)$ uniquely determines the base graph $G$ and the number of colors $k$. The vertices of $\mathcal{C}_{k}(G)$ are the proper $k$-colorings of $G$, and edges connect…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-13 Shamil Asgarli , Sara Krehbiel , Howard W. Levinson

The independence number, coloring number and related parameters are investigated in the setting of oriented hypergraphs using the spectrum of the normalized Laplace operator. For the independence number, both an inertia--like bound and a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Aida Abiad , Raffaella Mulas , Dong Zhang

We consider a family of distance graphs in $\mathbb{R}^n$ and find its independent numbers in some cases. Define graph $J_{\pm}(n,k,t)$ in the following way: the vertex set consists of all vectors from $\{-1,0,1\}^n$ with $k$ nonzero…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-06 Danila Cherkashin , Sergei Kiselev

The symmetries of a finite graph are described by its automorphism group; in the setting of Woronowicz's quantum groups, a notion of a quantum automorphism group has been defined by Banica capturing the quantum symmetries of the graph. In…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2019-07-01 Christian Eder , Viktor Levandovskyy , Julien Schanz , Simon Schmidt , Andreas Steenpass , Moritz Weber

This paper investigates when countable graphs have a finite or an infinite chromatic number through model theoretic methods. For Fra\"{i}ss\'{e} limits, we show that instability forces the chromatic number to be infinite, yielding a…

Logic · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Hirotaka Kikyo , Koitaro Nakaura , Akito Tsuboi