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Vertex colouring is a well-known problem in combinatorial optimisation, whose alternative integer programming formulations have recently attracted considerable attention. This paper briefly surveys seven known formulations of vertex…

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Edge-coloring problems with forbidden patterns are decision problems asking to find an edge-coloring of the input graph which avoids a homomorphism from a fixed forbidden family of edge-colored graphs. In the precolored version of these…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-04-29 Alexey Barsukov , Antoine Mottet , Davide Perinti

We propose an effective algorithm that enumerates (and actually finds) all 3-edge colorings and Hamiltonian cycles in a cubic graph. The idea is to make a preliminary run that separates the vertices into two types: ``rigid'' (such that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 V. Ejov , N. Pugacheva , S. Rossomakhine , P. Zograf

The present work focuses on the study of the renowned Collatz conjecture, also known as the $3x +1$ problem. The distinguished analysis approach lies on the dynamics of an iterative map in binary form. A new estimation of the enlargement of…

Dynamical Systems · Mathematics 2019-10-21 Pablo Castañeda

Suppose that the vertices of ${\mathbb Z}^d$ are assigned random colors via a finitary factor of independent identically distributed (iid) vertex-labels. That is, the color of vertex $v$ is determined by a rule that examines the labels…

Probability · Mathematics 2016-07-25 Alexander E. Holroyd , Oded Schramm , David B. Wilson

Restricted star colouring is a variant of star colouring introduced to design heuristic algorithms to estimate sparse Hessian matrices. For $k\in\mathbb{N}$, a $k$-restricted star colouring ($k$-rs colouring) of a graph $G$ is a function…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-01 Shalu M. A. , Cyriac Antony

We lift the constraint of a diagonal representation of the Hamiltonian by searching for square integrable bases that support a tridiagonal matrix representation of the wave operator. Doing so results in exactly solvable problems with a…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. D. Alhaidari

There is a class of statistical problems that arises in several contexts, the Lattice QCD problem of particle physics being one that has attracted the most attention. In essence, the problem boils down to the estimation of an infinite…

Methodology · Statistics 2012-01-06 Joshua Landon , Frank X. Lee , Nozer D. Singpurwalla

The set of nonnegative integer lattice points in a polytope, also known as the fiber of a linear map, makes an appearance in several applications including optimization and statistics. We address the problem of sampling from this set using…

Computation · Statistics 2024-07-24 Miles Bakenhus , Sonja Petrović

We consider the problem of coloring a 3-colorable graph in polynomial time using as few colors as possible. We present a combinatorial algorithm getting down to $\tO(n^{4/11})$ colors. This is the first combinatorial improvement of Blum's…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-05-08 Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi , Mikkel Thorup

We present a finite-order system of recurrence relations for a permanent of circulant matrices containing a band of k any-value diagonals on top of a uniform matrix (for k = 1, 2, and 3) as well as the method for deriving such recurrence…

We explore a general method based on trees of elementary submodels in order to present highly simplified proofs to numerous results in infinite combinatorics. While countable elementary submodels have been employed in such settings already,…

Logic · Mathematics 2018-02-06 Dániel T. Soukup , Lajos Soukup

We present a family of explicit solutions for a nonlinear classical vector model with anisotropic Heisenberg-like interaction on the triangular lattice.

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2019-04-16 V. E. Vekslerchik

We study a quantitative Ramsey-type problem on 3-term arithmetic progressions: how should the set of integers $[n] = \{1, 2, \dots, n\}$ be colored using 3 colors in order to maximize the number of rainbow 3-term arithmetic progressions? By…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Gabriel Elvin , Alexis Gonzales , Alejandro Rodriguez , Israel Wilbur

We study coherent backscattering of intense laser light from three immobile two-level atoms using the master equation approach. The master equation is solved analytically, and the triple scattering spectrum is expressed in quadratures. We…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2012-12-27 Vyacheslav Shatokhin , Thomas Wellens

We investigate the classical and distributed complexity of \emph{$k$-partial $c$-coloring} where $c=k$, a natural generalization of Brooks' theorem where each vertex should be colored from the palette $\{1,\ldots,c\} = \{1,\ldots,k\}$ such…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-08-27 Jan Bok , Avinandan Das , Anna Gujgiczer , Nikola Jedličková

We study a generalisation of the set-theoretic Yang-Baxter equation and investigate the connection between its solutions and matrix refactorisation problems. We refer to such solutions as scalene Yang-Baxter maps. Moreover, we construct…

Exactly Solvable and Integrable Systems · Physics 2026-05-01 S. Konstantinou-Rizos , T. Kouloukas

We introduce a new variant of graph coloring called correspondence coloring which generalizes list coloring and allows for reductions previously only possible for ordinary coloring. Using this tool, we prove that excluding cycles of lengths…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-11 Zdenek Dvorak , Luke Postle

Given a simple undirected graph $G=(V,E)$ and a partition of the vertex set $V$ into $p$ parts, the \textsc{Partition Coloring Problem} asks if we can select one vertex from each part of the partition such that the chromatic number of the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-07-29 Zhenyu Guo , Mingyu Xiao , Yi Zhou

We provide a self-contained introduction to random matrices. While some applications are mentioned, our main emphasis is on three different approaches to random matrix models: the Coulomb gas method and its interpretation in terms of…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2018-07-06 Bertrand Eynard , Taro Kimura , Sylvain Ribault