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Chromatic numbers for the hyperbolic plane and discrete analogs

Combinatorics 2017-01-31 v1 Geometric Topology

Abstract

We study colorings of the hyperbolic plane, analogously to the Hadwiger-Nelson problem for the Euclidean plane. The idea is to color points using the minimum number of colors such that no two points at distance exactly dd are of the same color. The problem depends on dd and, following a strategy of Kloeckner, we show linear upper bounds on the necessary number of colors. In parallel, we study the same problem on qq-regular trees and show analogous results. For both settings, we also consider a variant which consists in replacing dd with an interval of distances.

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@article{arxiv.1701.08648,
  title  = {Chromatic numbers for the hyperbolic plane and discrete analogs},
  author = {Hugo Parlier and Camille Petit},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.08648},
  year   = {2017}
}

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23 pages, 5 figures

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