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A Note About Majority Colorings of Countable DAGs

Discrete Mathematics 2024-06-07 v1 Combinatorics

Abstract

A majority coloring of an undirected graph is a vertex coloring in which for each vertex there are at least as many bi-chromatic edges containing that vertex as monochromatic ones. It is known that for every countable graph a majority 3-coloring always exists. The Unfriendly Partition Conjecture states that every countable graph admits a majority 2-coloring. Since the 3-coloring result extends to countable DAGs, a variant of the conjecture states that 2 colors are enough to majority color every countable DAG. We show that this is false by presenting a DAG for which 3 colors are necessary. Presented construction is strongly based on a StackExchange conversation regarding labellings of infinite graphs that is linked in the references.

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@article{arxiv.2406.04189,
  title  = {A Note About Majority Colorings of Countable DAGs},
  author = {Bartłomiej Bosek and Aleksander Katan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.04189},
  year   = {2024}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures

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