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As evidence for the Odd Hadwiger Conjecture, Simonyi and Zsb\'an (2010) showed that every Kneser graph $G$ with large enough order (compared to $\chi(G)$) contains a totally odd subdivision of $K_{\chi(G)}$. A recent result of Steiner…

A proper vertex coloring of a graph is said to be locally identifying if the sets of colors in the closed neighborhood of any two adjacent non-twin vertices are distinct. The lid-chromatic number of a graph is the minimum number of colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-11 Daniel Gonçalves , Aline Parreau , Alexandre Pinlou

We prove that any graph $G$ of minimum degree greater than $2k^2-1$ has a $(k+1)$-connected induced subgraph $H$ such that the number of vertices of $H$ that have neighbors outside of $H$ is at most $2k^2-1$. This generalizes a classical…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-04 Irena Penev , Stéphan Thomassé , Nicolas Trotignon

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

The Hom-complexes were introduced by Lovasz to study topological obstructions to graph colorings. It was conjectured by Babson and Kozlov, and proved by Cukic and Kozlov, that Hom(G,K_n) is (n-d-2)-connected, where d is the maximal degree…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Alexander Engstrom

Kostochka and Woodall (2001) conjectured that the square of every graph has the same chromatic number and list chromatic number. In 2015 Kim and Park disproved this conjecture for non-bipartite and bipartite graphs. It was asked by several…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-14 Morteza Hasanvand

Conlon, Gowers, Samotij, and Schacht showed that for a given graph $H$ and a constant $\gamma > 0$, there exists $C > 0$ such that if $p \ge Cn^{-1/m_2(H)}$ then asymptotically almost surely every spanning subgraph $G$ of the random graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-30 Rajko Nenadov , Nemanja Škorić

For a graph $G$ and $t,k\in\mathbb{Z}^+$ a \emph{$t$-tone $k$-coloring} of $G$ is a function $f:V(G)\rightarrow \binom{[k]}{t}$ such that $|f(v)\cap f(w)| < d(v,w)$ for all distinct $v,w \in V(G)$. The \emph{$t$-tone chromatic number} of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-27 Daniel W. Cranston , Hudson LaFayette

DP-coloring was introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle and is a generalization of proper coloring. For any graph $G$, let $\chi(G)$ and $\chi_{DP}(G)$ denote the chromatic number and the DP-chromatic number of $G$ respectively. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Meiqiao Zhang , Fengming Dong

A result of Gy\'arf\'as says that for every $3$-coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$, there is a monochromatic component of order at least $\frac{n}{2}$, and this is best possible when $4$ divides $n$. Furthermore, for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Deepak Bal , Louis DeBiasio

A vertex colouring of a graph is \emph{nonrepetitive} if there is no path for which the first half of the path is assigned the same sequence of colours as the second half. The \emph{nonrepetitive chromatic number} of a graph $G$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-23 Vida Dujmović , Fabrizio Frati , Gwenaël Joret , David R. Wood

We prove that the statement "for every infinite cardinal nu, every graph with list chromatic nu has coloring number at most beth_omega (nu)" proved by Kojman [6] using the RGCH theorem [11] implies the RGCG theorem via a short forcing…

Logic · Mathematics 2022-01-28 Saharon Shelah

The \emph{choice number} of a graph $G$, denoted $\ch(G)$, is the minimum integer $k$ such that for any assignment of lists of size $k$ to the vertices of $G$, there is a proper colouring of $G$ such that every vertex is mapped to a colour…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-03 Jonathan A. Noel

In the multicoloring problem, also known as ($a$:$b$)-coloring or $b$-fold coloring, we are given a graph G and a set of $a$ colors, and the task is to assign a subset of $b$ colors to each vertex of G so that adjacent vertices receive…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2017-02-20 Marthe Bonamy , Łukasz Kowalik , Michał Pilipczuk , Arkadiusz Socała , Marcin Wrochna

Let $F$ be a graph which contains an edge whose deletion reduces its chromatic number. We prove tight bounds on the number of copies of $F$ in a graph with a prescribed number of vertices and edges. Our results extend those of Simonovits,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-05-20 Dhruv Mubayi

This work derives an upper bound on the maximum cardinality of a family of graphs on a fixed number of vertices, in which the intersection of every two graphs in that family contains a subgraph that is isomorphic to a specified graph H.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-23 Igal Sason

An $acyclic$ edge coloring of a graph is a proper edge coloring such that there are no bichromatic cycles. The \emph{acyclic chromatic index} of a graph is the minimum number k such that there is an acyclic edge coloring using k colors and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Manu Basavaraju , L. Sunil Chandran , Manoj Kummini

Complete colorings have the property that any two color classes has at least an edge between them. Parameters such as the Grundy, achromatic and pseudoachromatic numbers comes from complete colorings, with some additional requirement. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-21 Gabriela Araujo-Pardo , Juan Carlos Díaz-Patiño , Christian Rubio-Montiel

An obstacle representation of a graph $G$ is a set of points in the plane representing the vertices of $G$, together with a set of polygonal obstacles such that two vertices of $G$ are connected by an edge in $G$ if and only if the line…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Martin Balko , Josef Cibulka , Pavel Valtr

The neighborhood complex $N(G)$ is a simplicial complex assigned to a graph $G$ whose connectivity gives a lower bound for the chromatic number of $G$. We show that if the Kronecker double coverings of graphs are isomorphic, then their…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Takahiro Matsushita
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