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We develop a topological framework in an attempt to generalize the classical colourful Caratheodory theorem by imposing an additional constraint. For that we introduce the notion of zero-avoding complexes and covering criteria for the…

Algebraic Topology · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Pavle V. M. Blagojevic

An edge-coloured graph is said to be rainbow if no colour appears more than once. Extremal problems involving rainbow objects have been a focus of much research over the last decade as they capture the essence of a number of interesting…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-27 Noga Alon , Matija Bucić , Lisa Sauermann , Dmitrii Zakharov , Or Zamir

The classic extremal problem is that of computing the maximum number of edges in an $F$-free graph. In the case where $F=K_{r+1}$, the extremal number was determined by Tur\'an. Later results, known as supersaturation theorems, proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-09-24 Jonathan Cutler , JD Nir , A. J. Radcliffe

A key aspect where extreme values methods differ from standard statistical models is through having asymptotic theory to provide a theoretical justification for the nature of the models used for extrapolation. In multivariate extremes many…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2023-07-04 Christian Rohrbeck , Jonathan A Tawn

The acyclic chromatic index (or acyclic edge-chromatic number) of a graph is the least number of colors needed to properly color its edges so that none of its cycles has only two colors. We show that for a graph of max degree $\Delta$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Lefteris Kirousis , John Livieratos , Alexandros Singh

In the vector space of symmetric functions, the elements of the basis of elementary symmetric functions are (up to a factor) the chromatic symmetric functions of disjoint unions of cliques. We consider their graph complements, the functions…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Logan Crew , Sophie Spirkl

How does the chromatic number of a graph chosen uniformly at random from all graphs on $n$ vertices behave? This quantity is a random variable, so one can ask (i) for upper and lower bounds on its typical values, and (ii) for bounds on how…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-21 Annika Heckel , Oliver Riordan

A zero-one matrix $M$ is said to contain another zero-one matrix $A$ if we can delete some rows and columns of $M$ and replace some $1$-entries with $0$-entries such that the resulting matrix is $A$. The extremal number of $A$, denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-08 Barnabás Janzer , Oliver Janzer , Van Magnan , Abhishek Methuku

The theory of flag algebras, introduced by Razborov in 2007, has opened the way to a systematic approach to the development of computer-assisted proofs in extremal combinatorics. It makes it possible to derive bounds for parameters in…

In 2006, Collins and Trenk obtained a general sharp upper bound for the distinguishing chromatic number of a connected graph. Inspired by Catlin's combinatorial techniques from 1978, we establish improved upper bounds for classes of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-16 Amitayu Banerjee

In this paper we further explore the recently discovered connection by Bj\"{o}rklund and Kaski [STOC 2024] and Pratt [STOC 2024] between the asymptotic rank conjecture of Strassen [Progr. Math. 1994] and the three-way partitioning problem.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-09 Andreas Björklund , Radu Curticapean , Thore Husfeldt , Petteri Kaski , Kevin Pratt

In this work we study the uncountable Borel chromatic numbers, defined by Geschke (2011) as cardinal characteristics of the continuum, of low complexity graphs. We show that a strong form of locally countable graphs with compact totally…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-09-12 Raiean Banerjee , Michel Gaspar

The {\em chromatic gap} is the difference between the chromatic number and the clique number of a graph. Here we investigate $\gap(n)$, the maximum chromatic gap over graphs on $n$ vertices. Can the extremal graphs be explored? While…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-01 András Gyárfás , András Sebõ , Nicolas Trotignon

In this paper we initiate a systematic study of the Tur\'an problem for edge-ordered graphs. A simple graph is called $\textit{edge-ordered}$, if its edges are linearly ordered. An isomorphism between edge-ordered graphs must respect the…

We develop further the new versions of quantum chromatic numbers of graphs introduced by the first and fourth authors. We prove that the problem of computation of the commuting quantum chromatic number of a graph is solvable by an SDP…

Operator Algebras · Mathematics 2016-02-18 Vern I. Paulsen , Simone Severini , Daniel Stahlke , Ivan G. Todorov , Andreas Winter

Suppose that $R$ (red) and $B$ (blue) are two graphs on the same vertex set of size $n$, and $H$ is some graph with a red-blue coloring of its edges. How large can $R$ and $B$ be if $R\cup B$ does not contain a copy of $H$? Call the largest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-08 Ander Lamaison , Alp Müyesser , Michael Tait

In this paper, we generalize the concept of complete coloring and achromatic number to 2-edge-colored graphs and signed graphs. We give some useful relationships between different possible definitions of such achromatic numbers and prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-14 Dimitri Lajou

In this work, we continue the tradition initiated by Geschke, 2011 of viewing the uncountable Borel chromatic number of analytic graphs as cardinal invariants of the continuum. We show that various uncountable Borel chromatic numbers of…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-08-16 Michel Gaspar , Stefan Geschke

Shareshian-Wachs, Brosnan-Chow, and Guay-Pacquet [Adv. Math. ${\bf 295}$ (2016), ${\bf 329}$ (2018), arXiv:1601.05498] realized the chromatic (quasi-)symmetric function of a unit interval graph in terms of Hessenberg varieties. Here we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-18 Syu Kato

We introduce a new method for computing bounds on the independence number and fractional chromatic number of classes of graphs with local constraints, and apply this method in various scenarios. We establish a formula that generates a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-26 François Pirot , Jean-Sébastien Sereni