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We study a generalization of a famous result of Goodman and establish that asymptotically at least a $1/256$ fraction of all triangles needs to be monochromatic in any four-coloring of the edges of a complete graph. We also show that any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-14 Aldo Kiem , Sebastian Pokutta , Christoph Spiegel

A recent lower bound on the number of edges in a k-critical n-vertex graph by Kostochka and Yancey yields a half-page proof of the celebrated Gr\"otzsch Theorem that every planar triangle-free graph is 3-colorable. In this paper we use the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-16 Oleg V. Borodin , Alexandr V. Kostochka , Bernard Lidický , Matthew Yancey

An injective coloring of a graph is a vertex coloring where two vertices with common neighbor receive distinct colors. The minimum integer $k$ that $G$ has a $k-$injective coloring is called injective chromatic number of $G$ and denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-09 Mahsa Mozafari-Nia , Behnaz Omoomi

Let $G$ be a $\{C_4, C_5\}$-free planar graph with a list assignment $L$. Suppose a preferred color is given for some of the vertices. We prove that if all lists have size at least four, then there exists an $L$-coloring respecting at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-11 Donglei Yang , Fan Yang

A clique-coloring of a given graph $G$ is a coloring of the vertices of $G$ such that no maximal clique of size at least two is monocolored. The clique-chromatic number of $G$ is the least number of colors for which $G$ admits a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Behnaz Omoomi , Maryam Taleb

An edge-weighting of a graph is called vertex-coloring if the weighted degrees yield a proper vertex coloring of the graph. It is conjectured that for every graph without isolated edge, a vertex-coloring edge-weighting with the set {1,2,3}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Ralph Keusch

It is well-known that every planar or projective planar graph can be 3-colored so that each color class induces a forest. This bound is sharp. In this paper, we show that there are in fact exponentially many 3-colorings of this kind for any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-25 Ararat Harutyunyan , Bojan Mohar

Let $V$ be a vector space of dimension $v$ over a field of order $q$. The $q$-Kneser graph has the $k$-dimensional subspaces of $V$ as its vertices, where two subspaces $\alpha$ and $\beta$ are adjacent if and only if $\alpha\cap\beta$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Ameera Chowdhury , Chris Godsil , Gordon Royle

A complete partition of a graph $G$ is a partition of the vertex set such that there is at least one edge between any two parts. The largest $r$ such that $G$ has a complete partition into $r$ parts, each of which is an independent set, is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-26 Vladislav Taranchuk , Craig Timmons

We define pure graphs, invertible graphs, and the notion of complementation of bicoloured graphs. The study of pure graphs is motivated by two conjectures about the transition systems of eulerian graphs and by the Cycle Double Cover…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 François Genest

The Gr\"{o}tzsch Theorem states that every triangle-free planar graph admits a proper $3$-coloring. Among many of its generalizations, the one of Gr\"{u}nbaum and Aksenov, giving $3$-colorability of planar graphs with at most three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Hoang La , Borut Lužar , Kenny Štorgel

We construct a polynomial-time algorithm that given a graph $X$ with $4p$ vertices ($p$ is prime), finds (if any) a Cayley representation of $X$ over the group $C_2\times C_2\times C_p$. This result, together with the known similar result…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-06 Roman Nedela , Ilia Ponomarenko

A graph is called to be uniquely list colorable, if it admits a list assignment which induces a unique list coloring. We study uniquely list colorable graphs with a restriction on the number of colors used. In this way we generalize a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-01-03 Y. G. Ganjali , M. Ghebleh , H. Hajiabolhassan , M. Mirzazadeh , B. S. Sadjad

A graph $G=(V,E)$ is a $k$-critical graph if $G$ is not $(k -1)$-colorable but $G-e$ is $(k-1)$-colorable for every $e\in E(G)$. In this paper, we construct a family of 4-critical planar graphs with $n$ vertices and $\frac{7n-13}{3}$ edges.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-03 Yao Tianxing , Zhou Guofei

In the paper we state and prove theorem describing the upper bound on number of the graphs that have fixed number of vertices |V| and can be colored with the fixed number of n colors. The bound relates both numbers using power of 2, while…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kamil Kulesza , Zbigniew Kotulski

In any vertex coloring of a graph some edges have differently colored ends (\emph{good} edges) and some are monochromatic (\emph{bad} edges). In a proper coloring all edges are good. In a \emph{majority coloring} it is enough that for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-09 Marcin Anholcer , Bartłomiej Bosek , Jarosław Grytczuk

Let Gn be the graph on n-dimensional Euclidean space connecting points of rational Euclidean distance. It is consistent relative to an inaccessible cardinal that ZF+DC holds and G3 has countable chromatic number, yet G4 has uncountable…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-19 Jindrich Zapletal

DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring, introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'ak and Postle in 2017. It is well-known that there are non-4-choosable planar graphs. Much attention has recently been put on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Seog-Jin Kim , Runrun Liu , Gexin Yu

There are two conjectures concerning planar graph colourings that are strengthenings of the four colour theorem. One concerns signed graph colouring and is proposed by M\'{a}\v{c}ajov\'{a}, Raspaud and \v{S}koviera. It asserts that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-09 Xuding Zhu

For a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, the $k$-Bell colour graph of $G$ is the graph whose vertices are the partitions of $V$ into at most $k$ independent sets, with two of these being adjacent if there exists a vertex $x$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Stephen Finbow , Gary MacGillivray