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The paper deals with extremal problems concerning colorings of hypergraphs. By using a random recoloring algorithm we show that any $n$-uniform simple (i.e. every two distinct edges share at most one vertex) hypergraph $H$ with maximum edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Jakub Kozik , Dmitry Shabanov

Let $G$ be a graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ which does not contain isolated vertices. An edge coloring $c$ of $G$ is called conflict-free if each edge's closed neighborhood includes a uniquely colored element. The least number of colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Mateusz Kamyczura , Jakub Przybyło

We generalize the classical sharp bounds for the largest eigenvalue of the normalized Laplace operator, $\frac{N}{N-1}\leq \lambda_N\leq 2$, to the case of chemical hypergraphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Raffaella Mulas

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

An \emph{interval $t$-coloring} of a graph $G$ is a proper edge-coloring with colors $1,\dots,t$ such that the colors on the edges incident to every vertex of $G$ are colored by consecutive colors. A graph $G$ is called \emph{interval…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-27 Petros A. Petrosyan , Hrant H. Khachatrian , Hovhannes G. Tananyan

We introduce the notion of locally identifying coloring of a graph. A proper vertex-coloring c of a graph G is said to be locally identifying, if for any adjacent vertices u and v with distinct closed neighborhood, the sets of colors that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-09-28 Louis Esperet , Sylvain Gravier , Mickael Montassier , Pascal Ochem , Aline Parreau

An equitable coloring of a graph is a proper coloring where the sizes of any two different color classes do not differ by more than one. A graph is IC-planar if it can be drawn in the plane so that no two crossed edges have a common…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Weichan Liu

The conflict-free chromatic index of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colours in an edge colouring of $G$ such that the neighbourhood of every edge contains a colour appearing exactly once. Its vertex analogue is the conflict-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Mateusz Kamyczura , Jakub Przybyło

A proper coloring of a graph is called \emph{odd} if every non-isolated vertex has some color that appears an odd number of times on its neighborhood. The smallest number of colors that admits an odd coloring of a graph $G$ is denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Daniel W. Cranston

We examine maximum vertex coloring of random geometric graphs, in an arbitrary but fixed dimension, with a constant number of colors. Since this problem is neither scale-invariant nor smooth, the usual methodology to obtain limit laws…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-11-17 Sem Borst , Milan Bradonjić

A proper vertex coloring of a graph $G$ is equitable if the sizes of color classes differ by at most one. The equitable chromatic threshold $\chi_{eq}^*(G)$ of $G$ is the smallest integer $m$ such that $G$ is equitably $n$-colorable for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-21 Rong Luo , Jean-Sébastien Sereni , D. Christopher Stephens , Gexin Yu

The {\em acyclic chromatic number} of a graph is the least number of colors needed to properly color its vertices so that none of its cycles has only two colors. The {\em acyclic chromatic index} is the analogous graph parameter for edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Lefteris Kirousis , John Livieratos

A '(partial) conflict-free coloring' of a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ is an assignment of colors to (a subset of) the vertex set of $\mathcal{H}$ such that every hyperedge in $\mathcal{H}$ has a vertex whose color is distinct from every other…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-14 Shiwali Gupta , Rogers Mathew

A proper $k$-colouring of a graph $G$ is called $h$-conflict-free if every vertex $v$ has at least $\min\, \{h, {\rm deg}(v)\}$ colours appearing exactly once in its neighbourhood. Let $\chi_{\rm pcf}^h(G)$ denote the minimum $k$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Quentin Chuet , Tianjiao Dai , Qiancheng Ouyang , François Pirot

This paper studies the quantity $p(n,r)$, that is the minimal number of edges of an $n$-uniform hypergraph without panchromatic coloring (it means that every edge meets every color) in $r$ colors. If $r \leq c \frac{n}{\ln n}$ then all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-11 Danila Cherkashin

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a simple graph of maximum degree $\Delta$. The edges of $G$ can be colored with at most $\Delta +1$ colors by Vizing's theorem. We study lower bounds on the size of subgraphs of $G$ that can be colored with $\Delta$ colors.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-04 Marcin Kamiński , Łukasz Kowalik

Let $G$ be a graph, and let $\lambda(G)$ denote the smallest eigenvalue of $G$. First, we provide an upper bound for $\lambda(G)$ based on induced bipartite subgraphs of $G$. Consequently, we extract two other upper bounds, one relying on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Aryan Esmailpour , Sara Saeedi Madani , Dariush Kiani

We study the \emph{maximum differential coloring problem}, where the vertices of an $n$-vertex graph must be labeled with distinct numbers ranging from $1$ to $n$, so that the minimum absolute difference between two labels of any two…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-06-13 M. Bekos , A. Das , M. Geyer , M. Kaufmann , S. Kobourov , S. Veeramoni

In this note we give a new upper bound for the Laplacian eigenvalues of an unweighted graph. Let $G$ be a simple graph on $n$ vertices. Let $d_{m}(G)$ and $\lambda_{m+1}(G)$ be the $m$-th smallest degree of $G$ and the $m+1$-th smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-06-07 Miriam Farber , Ido Kaminer

The chromatic number $\chi(G)$ of a graph $G$ is defined as the minimum number of colours required for a vertex colouring where no two adjacent vertices are coloured the same. The chromatic number of the dense random graph $G \sim G(n,p)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-29 Annika Heckel