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We study thresholds for extremal properties of random discrete structures. We determine the threshold for Szemer\'edi's theorem on arithmetic progressions in random subsets of the integers and its multidimensional extensions and we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-20 Mathias Schacht

In a recent paper, Hunter, Milojevi\'c, Sudakov and Tomon consider the maximum number of edges in an $n$-vertex graph containing no copy of the complete bipartite graph $K_{s,s}$ and no induced copy of a "pattern" graph $H$. They conjecture…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Nathan S. Sheffield

The fractional and circular chromatic numbers are the two most studied non-integral refinements of the chromatic number of a graph. Starting from the definition of a coloring base of a graph, which originated in work related to ergodic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Pablo Candela , Carlos Catala , Robert Hancock , Adam Kabela , Daniel Kral , Ander Lamaison , Lluis Vena

The strong chromatic number $\chi_{\text{s}}(G)$ of a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices is the least number $r$ with the following property: after adding $r \lceil n/r \rceil - n$ isolated vertices to $G$ and taking the union with any collection of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Allan Lo , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2015. In 2019, Bernshteyn, Kostochka, and Zhu introduced a fractional version of DP-coloring. They showed that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-27 Daniel Dominik , Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock

It is known (Bollob\'{a}s (1978); Kostochka and Mazurova (1977)) that there exist graphs of maximum degree $\Delta$ and of arbitrarily large girth whose chromatic number is at least $c \Delta / \log \Delta$. We show an analogous result for…

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

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

We prove a version of the strong Taylor's conjecture for stable graphs: if $G$ is a stable graph whose chromatic number is strictly greater than $\beth_2(\aleph_0)$ then $G$ contains all finite subgraphs of Sh$_n(\omega)$ and thus has…

Logic · Mathematics 2021-03-26 Yatir Halevi , Itay Kaplan , Saharon Shelah

For studying topological obstructions to graph colorings, Hom-complexes were introduced by Lov\'{a}sz. A graph $T$ is called a test graph if for every graph $H$, the $k$-connectedness of $|Hom(T, H)|$ implies $\chi (H)\geq k + 1 + \chi(T)$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-30 Hamid Reza Daneshpajouh

Let $R$ be a ring. The unitary addition Cayley graph of $R$, denoted $\mathcal{U}(R)$, is the graph with vertex $R$, and two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ are adjacent if and only if $x+y$ is a unit. We determine a formula for the clique…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-29 Keenan Calhoun , Yeşim Demiroğlu Karabulut , Vincent Pigno , Craig Timmons

Let $\chi(G)$ denote the chromatic number of a graph and $\chi_v(G)$ denote the vector chromatic number. For all graphs $\chi_v(G) \le \chi(G)$ and for some graphs $\chi_v(G) \ll \chi(G)$. Galtman proved that Hoffman's well-known lower…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-17 Pawel Wocjan , Clive Elphick , David Anekstein

An edge colored graph is said to contain rainbow-$F$ if $F$ is a subgraph and every edge receives a different color. In 2007, Keevash, Mubayi, Sudakov, and Verstra\"ete introduced the \emph{rainbow extremal number} $\mathrm{ex}^*(n,F)$, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-04 Nicholas Crawford , Dylan King , Sam Spiro

A new algorithm to obtain the chromatic number of a finite, connected graph is proposed in this paper. The algorithm is based on contraction of non adjacent vertices.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-10-16 Athma. M. Ram , R. Rama

We define vertex-colourings for edge-partitioned digraphs, which unify the theory of P-partitions and proper vertex-colourings of graphs. We use our vertex-colourings to define generalized chromatic functions, which merge the chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-28 Farid Aliniaeifard , Shu Xiao Li , Stephanie van Willigenburg

Erd\H{o}s introduced the noncommuting graph, in order to study the number of commuting elements in a finite group. Despite the use of combinatorial ideas, his methods involved several techniques of classical analysis. The interest for this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-14 Stefano Nardulli , Francesco G. Russo

The generalised colouring numbers $\mathrm{adm}_r(G)$, $\mathrm{col}_r(G)$, and $\mathrm{wcol}_r(G)$ were introduced by Kierstead and Yang as generalisations of the usual colouring number, also known as the degeneracy of a graph, and have…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-06-30 Stephan Kreutzer , Michał Pilipczuk , Roman Rabinovich , Sebastian Siebertz

Topological indices are real numbers invariant under graph isomorphisms. Chromatic analogue of topological indices has been introduced recently in literature in 2017. Mainly, chromatic versions of Zagreb indices are studied lately. This…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-10-09 Smitha Rose , Sudev Naduvath

It is consistent that for every monotonically increasing function f:omega->omega there is a graph with size and chromatic number aleph_1 in which every n-chromatic subgraph has at least f(n) elements (n >= 3). This solves a $250 problem of…

Logic · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Péter Komjáth , Saharon Shelah

Consider a graph obtained by taking edge disjoint union of $k$ complete bipartite graphs. Alon, Saks and Seymour conjectured that such graph has chromatic number at most $k+1$. This well known conjecture remained open for almost twenty…

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