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Chromatic Number of Random Kneser Hypergraphs

Combinatorics 2016-08-16 v2

Abstract

Recently, Kupavskii~[{\it On random subgraphs of {K}neser and {S}chrijver graphs. J. Combin. Theory Ser. A, {\rm 2016}.}] investigated the chromatic number of random Kneser graphs \KGn,k(ρ)\KG_{n,k}(\rho) and proved that, in many cases, the chromatic numbers of the random Kneser graph \KGn,k(ρ)\KG_{n,k}(\rho) and the Kneser graph \KGn,k\KG_{n,k} are almost surely closed. He also marked the studying of the chromatic number of random Kneser hypergraphs \KGn,kr(ρ)\KG^r_{n,k}(\rho) as a very interesting problem. With the help of Zp\Z_p-Tucker lemma, a combinatorial generalization of the Borsuk-Ulam theorem, we generalize Kupavskii's result to random general Kneser hypergraphs by introducing an almost surely lower bound for the chromatic number of them. Roughly speaking, as a special case of our result, we show that the chromatic numbers of the random Kneser hypergraph \KGn,kr(ρ)\KG^r_{n,k}(\rho) and the Kneser hypergraph \KGn,kr\KG^r_{n,k} are almost surely closed in many cases. Moreover, restricting to the Kneser and {S}chrijver graphs, we present a purely combinatorial proof for an improvement of Kupavskii's results. Also, for any hypergraph \HH\HH, we present a lower bound for the minimum number of colors required in a coloring of \KGr(H)\KG^r(\mathcal{H}) with no monochromatic Kt,,trK_{t,\ldots,t}^r subhypergraph, where Kt,,trK_{t,\ldots,t}^r is the complete rr-uniform rr-partite hypergraph with trt r vertices such that each of its parts has tt vertices. This result generalizes the lower bound for the chromatic number of \KGr(H)\KG^r(\mathcal{H}) found by the present authors~[{\it On the chromatic number of general {K}neser hypergraphs. J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B, {\rm 2015}.}].

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@article{arxiv.1607.07432,
  title  = {Chromatic Number of Random Kneser Hypergraphs},
  author = {Meysam Alishahi and Hossein Hajiabolhassan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.07432},
  year   = {2016}
}
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