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We show that if $G$ is a $d$-regular Vizing-class-1 graph, then the proper additive chromatic index of $G$, denoted $\eta'_p(G)$, is equal to its chromatic index. This verifies that a strengthening of the Additive Coloring Conjecture of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Ian Gossett

The reflection positivity property has played a central role in both mathematics and physics, as well as providing a crucial link between the two subjects. In a previous paper we gave a new geometric approach to understanding reflection…

Mathematical Physics · Physics 2019-01-31 Arthur Jaffe , Zhengwei Liu

A graph $H$ is said to be positive if the homomorphism density $t_H(G)$ is non-negative for all weighted graphs $G$. The positive graph conjecture proposes a characterisation of such graphs, saying that a graph is positive if and only if it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-29 David Conlon , Joonkyung Lee , Leo Versteegen

Edge expansion is a parameter indicating how well-connected a graph is. It is useful for designing robust networks, analysing random walks or information flow through a network and is an important notion in theoretical computer science.…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-12 Colin McDiarmid , Katarzyna Rybarczyk , Fiona Skerman , Małgorzata Sulkowska

We show that Erd\H{o}s-R\'enyi random graphs $G(n,p)$ with constant density $p<1$ have correspondence chromatic number $O(n/\sqrt{\log n})$; this matches a prediction from linear Hadwiger's conjecture for correspondence coloring. The proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-28 Zdenek Dvorak , Liana Yepremyan

Let G be a graph on n vertices with maximum degree D. We use the Lov\'asz local lemma to show the following two results about colourings c of the edges of the complete graph K_n. If for each vertex v of K_n the colouring c assigns each…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-07-23 Julia Böttcher , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Aldo Procacci

In this paper, we present a foundation study for proper colouring of edge-set graphs. The authors consider that a detailed study of the colouring of edge-set graphs corresponding to the family of paths is best suitable for such foundation…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Johan Kok , Sudev Naduvath

A path (cycle) is properly-colored if consecutive edges are of distinct colors. In 1997, Bang-Jensen and Gutin conjectured a necessary and sufficient condition for the existence of a Hamilton path in an edge-colored complete graph. This…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-19 Ruonan Li , Bo Ning

We prove #P-completeness results for counting edge colorings on simple graphs. These strengthen the corresponding results on multigraphs from [4]. We prove that for any $\kappa \ge r \ge 3$ counting $\kappa$-edge colorings on $r$-regular…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-10-13 Jin-Yi Cai , Artem Govorov

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

An old result of M\"uller and R\"odl states that a countable graph $G$ has a subgraph whose vertices all have infinite degree if and only if for any vertex labeling of $G$ by positive integers, an infinite increasing path can be found. They…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Valentino Vito

For a flexible labeling of a graph, it is possible to construct infinitely many non-equivalent realizations keeping the distances of connected points constant. We give a combinatorial characterization of graphs that have flexible labelings.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-17 Georg Grasegger , Jan Legerský , Josef Schicho

Motivated by investigations of rainbow matchings in edge colored graphs, we introduce the notion of color-line graphs that generalizes the classical concept of line graphs in a natural way. Let $H$ be a (properly) edge-colored graph. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-10 Van Bang Le , Florian Pfender

A strong edge-colouring of a graph is a proper edge-colouring where each colour class induces a matching. It is known that every planar graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ has a strong edge-colouring with at most $4\Delta+4$ colours. We show…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-07-22 Julien Bensmail , Ararat Harutyunyan , Hervé Hocquard , Petru Valicov

A subgraph of an edge-colored graph is called \emph{rainbow} if all of its edges have distinct colors. There has been much research on the topic of finding a large rainbow matching in a properly edge-colored graph, where a proper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Po-Shen Loh

The edge-degeneracy model is an exponential random graph model that uses the graph degeneracy, a measure of the graph's connection density, and number of edges in a graph as its sufficient statistics. We show this model is relatively…

Statistics Theory · Mathematics 2016-09-19 Nicolas Kim , Dane Wilburne , Sonja Petrović , Alessandro Rinaldo

The Petersen colouring conjecture states that every bridgeless cubic graph admits an edge-colouring with $5$ colours such that for every edge $e$, the set of colours assigned to the edges adjacent to $e$ has cardinality either $2$ or $4$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-11 François Pirot , Jean-Sébastien Sereni , Riste Škrekovski

A majority edge-coloring of a graph without pendant edges is a coloring of its edges such that, for every vertex $v$ and every color $\alpha$, there are at most as many edges incident to $v$ colored with $\alpha$ as with all other colors.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Rafał Kalinowski , Monika Pilśniak , Marcin Stawiski

We introduce the concept of complete edge-colored permutation graphs as complete graphs that are the edge-disjoint union of "classical" permutation graphs. We show that a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a complete edge-colored permutation graph if and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-04-16 Tom Hartmann , Max Bannach , Martin Middendorf , Peter F. Stadler , Nicolas Wieseke , Marc Hellmuth

A path in an edge-colored graph is called a \emph{monochromatic path} if all the edges on the path are colored the same. An edge-coloring of $G$ is a \emph{monochromatic connection coloring} (MC-coloring, for short) if there is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Qingqiong Cai , Xueliang Li , Di Wu