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We consider a coloring problem on dynamic, one-dimensional point sets: points appearing and disappearing on a line at given times. We wish to color them with k colors so that at any time, any sequence of p(k) consecutive points, for some…

Let $\mathcal{P}$ be a graph property. A $\mathcal{P}$-coloring with at most $k$ colors is a coloring of the vertices of a simple graph $G$ such that each color class induces a graph in $\mathcal{P}$. Harary polynomials are generalizations…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Johann A. Makowsky

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) of graphs is a generalization of list coloring that has been widely studied since its introduction by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in $2015$. Intuitively, DP-coloring generalizes list coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Anton Bernshteyn , Daniel Dominik , Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock

This paper extends the scenario of the Four Color Theorem in the following way. Let H(d,k) be the set of all k-uniform hypergraphs that can be (linearly) embedded into R^d. We investigate lower and upper bounds on the maximum (weak and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Carl Georg Heise , Konstantinos Panagiotou , Oleg Pikhurko , Anusch Taraz

The work deals with the threshold probablity for r-colorability in the binomial model H(n,k,p) of a random k-uniform hypergraph. We prove a lower bound for this threshold which improves the previously known results in the wide range of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-01 Andrei Kupavskii , Dmitry Shabanov

Given a hypergraph H = (V, E), a coloring of its vertices is said to be conflict-free if for every hyperedge S \in E there is at least one vertex in S whose color is distinct from the colors of all other vertices in S. The discrete interval…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Panagiotis Cheilaris , Shakhar Smorodinsky

We show how to adjust a very nice coupling argument due to McDiarmid in order to prove/reprove in a novel way results concerning Hamilton cycles in various models of random graph and hypergraphs. In particular, we firstly show that for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-02-09 Asaf Ferber

In order to solve a question on list coloring of planar graphs, Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle introduced the concept of so called DP-coloring, thereby extending the concept of list-coloring. DP-coloring was anaylized in detail by Bernshteyn,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Thomas Schweser

An $r$-uniform hypergraph is uniquely $k$-colorable if there exists exactly one partition of its vertex set into $k$ parts such that every edge contains at most one vertex from each part. For integers $k \ge r \ge 2$, let $\Phi_{k,r}$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-04 Xizhi Liu , Jie Ma , Tianhen Wang , Tianming Zhu

A $k$-uniform hypergraph (or $k$-graph) $H = (V, E)$ is $k$-partite if $V$ can be partitioned into $k$ sets $V_1, \ldots, V_k$ such that each edge in $E$ contains precisely one vertex from each $V_i$. In this note, we consider list…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-17 Abhishek Dhawan

A graph $G$ arrows a graph $H$ if in every $2$-edge-coloring of $G$ there exists a monochromatic copy of $H$. Schelp had the idea that if the complete graph $K_n$ arrows a small graph $H$, then every "dense" subgraph of $K_n$ also arrows…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-26 József Balogh , Alexandr Kostochka , Mikhail Lavrov , Xujun Liu

A $k$-uniform hypergraph $H = (V, E)$ is $k$-partite if $V$ can be partitioned into $k$ sets $V_1, \ldots, V_k$ such that every edge in $E$ contains precisely one vertex from each $V_i$. We call such a graph $n$-balanced if $|V_i| = n$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-26 Abhishek Dhawan

For a hypergraph $H$, let $q(H)$ denote the expected number of monochromatic edges when the color of each vertex in $H$ is sampled uniformly at random from the set of size 2. Let $s_{\min}(H)$ denote the minimum size of an edge in $H$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-17 Lech Duraj , Grzegorz Gutowski , Jakub Kozik

By a graph we mean a finite undirected graph having multiple edges but no loops. Given a graph property $\mathcal{P}$, a $\mathcal{P}$-coloring of a graph $G$ with color set $C$ is a mapping $\f:V(G)\to C$ such that for each color $c\in C$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Alexandr V. Kostochka , Thomas Schweser , Michael Stiebitz

Let $H$ be a hypergraph. For a $k$-edge coloring $c : E(H) \to \{1,...,k\}$ let $f(H,c)$ be the number of components in the subhypergraph induced by the color class with the least number of components. Let $f_k(H)$ be the maximum possible…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yair Caro , Raphael Yuster

A subcoloring of a graph is a partition of its vertex set into subsets (called colors), each inducing a disjoint union of cliques. It is a natural generalization of the classical proper coloring, in which each color must instead induce an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-06-25 Malory Marin , Rémi Watrigant

A proper $k$-coloring of vertices of an $n$-vertex graph is equitable if the size of every color class is $\lfloor n/k\rfloor$ or $\lceil n/k\rceil$. An extension of it to list coloring requires only that the size of every color class is at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-19 H. A. Kierstead , Alexandr Kostochka , Zimu Xiang

We deal with an extremal problem concerning panchromatic colorings of hypergraphs. A vertex $r$-coloring of a hypergraph $H$ is \emph{panchromatic} if every edge meets every color. We prove that for every $3<r\leq\sqrt[3]{n/(100\ln n)}$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-24 Margarita Akhmejanova , József Balogh

A hypergraph $H$ consists of a set $V$ of vertices and a set $E$ of hyperedges that are subsets of $V$. A $t$-tuple of $H$ is a subset of $t$ vertices of $V$. A $t$-tuple $k$-coloring of $H$ is a mapping of its $t$-tuples into $k$ colors. A…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2025-03-31 Ahmad Biniaz , Jean-Lou De Carufel , Anil Maheshwari , Michiel Smid , Shakhar Smorodinsky , Miloš Stojaković

Hadwiger's conjecture, among the most famous open problems in graph theory, states that every graph that does not contain $K_t$ as a minor is properly $(t-1)$-colorable. The purpose of this work is to demonstrate that a natural extension of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-22 Raphael Steiner