English
Related papers

Related papers: Graph colouring and Steenrod's problem for Stanley…

200 papers

We study an algorithmic problem that is motivated by ink minimization for sparse set visualizations. Our input is a set of points in the plane which are either blue, red, or purple. Blue points belong exclusively to the blue set, red points…

We extend Wood's graph theoretic interpretation of certain quotients of the mod $2$ dual Steenrod algebra to quotients of the mod $p$ dual Steenrod algebra where $p$ is an odd prime and to quotients of the $C_2$-equivariant dual Steenrod…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2026-01-08 Connor Elliott , Courtney Hauf , Kai Morton , Sarah Petersen , Leticia Schow

We study several basic problems about colouring the $p$-random subgraph $G_p$ of an arbitrary graph $G$, focusing primarily on the chromatic number and colouring number of $G_p$. In particular, we show that there exist infinitely many…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-02 Boris Bukh , Michael Krivelevich , Bhargav Narayanan

A {\em balanced} spatial graph has an integer weight on each edge, so that the directed sum of the weights at each vertex is zero. We describe the Alexander module and polynomial for balanced spatial graphs (originally due to Kinoshita…

Geometric Topology · Mathematics 2018-08-14 Terry Kong , Alec Lewald , Blake Mellor , Vadim Pigrish

We investigate Sperner's labelings of $H^\pi_{k,q}$, the hypergraph whose hyperedges are facets of the edgewise triangulation of a $(k-1)$-simplex defined by a permutation $\pi\in \mathbb{S}_{k-1}$. Mirzakhani and Vondr\' ak showed that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Duško Jojić , Ognjen Papaz

A proper labeling of a graph is an assignment of integers to some elements of a graph, which may be the vertices, the edges, or both of them, such that we obtain a proper vertex coloring via the labeling subject to some conditions. The…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-25 Ali Dehghan , Mohammad-Reza Sadeghi , Arash Ahadi

This paper describes several new problems and ideas concerning algebraic geometry and complexity theory. It first uses the idea of coloring graphs with elements of finite fields. This procedure then shows that graph coloring problems can be…

Algebraic Geometry · Mathematics 2025-03-20 Paul Hriljac

Using the definition of colouring of $2$-edge-coloured graphs derived from $2$-edge-coloured graph homomorphism, we extend the definition of chromatic polynomial to $2$-edge-coloured graphs. We find closed forms for the first three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-28 I. Beaton , D. Cox , C. Duffy , N. Zolkavich

For each commutative, graded algebra with finite dimension in each degree, we construct a graded cohomology theory for graphs whose graded Euler characteristic is the chromatic polynomial of the graph. This extends our previous work which…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Laure Helme-Guizon , Yongwu Rong

The mod-p cohomology ring of a non-trivial finite p-group is an infinite dimensional, finitely presented graded unital algebra over the field with p elements, with generators in positive degrees. We describe an effective algorithm to test…

Rings and Algebras · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Bettina Eick , Simon King

The purpose of these notes is to provide an introduction to the Steenrod algebra in an algebraic manner avoiding any use of cohomology operations. The Steenrod algebra is presented as a subalgebra of the algebra of endomorphisms of a…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2009-03-31 Larry Smith

A circle graph is a graph in which the adjacency of vertices can be represented as the intersection of chords of a circle. The problem of calculating the chromatic number is known to be NP-complete, even on circle graphs. In this paper, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-09-25 Masato Tanaka , Tomomi Matsui

List colouring is an influential and classic topic in graph theory. We initiate the study of a natural strengthening of this problem, where instead of one list-colouring, we seek many in parallel. Our explorations have uncovered a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Stijn Cambie , Wouter Cames van Batenburg , Ewan Davies , Ross J. Kang

In this paper we resolve the complexity of the isomorphism problem on all but finitely many of the graph classes characterized by two forbidden induced subgraphs. To this end we develop new techniques applicable for the structural and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Pascal Schweitzer

This paper introduces two new notions of graded linear resolution and graded linear quotients, which generalize the concepts of linear resolution property and linear quotient for modules over the polynomial ring $A=k[x_1, \dots ,x_n]$.…

Commutative Algebra · Mathematics 2021-11-11 Mohammad Reza Rahmati , Gerardo Flores

A colouring of a graph is "nonrepetitive" if for every path of even order, the sequence of colours on the first half of the path is different from the sequence of colours on the second half. We show that planar graphs have nonrepetitive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Vida Dujmović , Louis Esperet , Gwenaël Joret , Bartosz Walczak , David R. Wood

We prove that the class of $(K_t,sP_1+P_5)$-free graphs has bounded mim-width for every $s\geq 0$ and $t\geq 1$, and that there is a polynomial-time algorithm that, given a graph in the class, computes a branch decomposition of constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Nick Brettell , Jake Horsfield , Daniel Paulusma

We study a family of closely-related distributed graph problems, which we call degree splitting, where roughly speaking the objective is to partition (or orient) the edges such that each node's degree is split almost uniformly. Our findings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-11 Mohsen Ghaffari , Hsin-Hao Su

In this paper, perfect k-orthogonal colourings of tensor graphs are studied. First, the problem of determining if a given graph has a perfect 2-orthogonal colouring is reformulated as a tensor subgraph problem. Then, it is shown that if two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-11 Kyle MacKeigan

A colored Gaussian graphical model is a linear concentration model in which equalities among the concentrations are specified by a coloring of an underlying graph. The model is called RCOP if this coloring is given by the edge and vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-03 Jane Ivy Coons , Aida Maraj , Pratik Misra , Miruna-Stefana Sorea