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Comparing list-color functions of uniform hypergraphs with their chromatic polynomials

Combinatorics 2024-12-11 v4

Abstract

In [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 161 (2023), 109--119], the authors showed that the list-color function Pl(G,k)P_l(G,k) of any simple graph GG of size mm coincides with its chromatic polynomial P(G,k)P(G,k) for all integers km1k\ge m-1. In this article, we extend this conclusion to any uniform hypergraph. Furthermore, we show that for any rr-uniform hypergraph H=(V,E){\cal H}=(V,E), where r2r\ge 2, P(H,L)P(H,k)(kE+1)kVr1eE(kveL(v))P({\cal H}, L)-P({\cal H},k)\ge (k-|E|+1)k^{|V|-r-1}\sum\limits_{e\in E}\left (k-\left|\bigcap\limits_{v\in e}L(v)\right|\right ) holds for all integers kk with kE14k\ge |E|-1\ge 4 and all kk-assignments LL of H{\cal H}, where P(H,L)P({\cal H}, L) is the number of LL-colorings of H{\cal H}.

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@article{arxiv.2305.02497,
  title  = {Comparing list-color functions of uniform hypergraphs with their chromatic polynomials},
  author = {Fengming Dong and Meiqiao Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2305.02497},
  year   = {2024}
}

Comments

1 figure and 14 pages. arXiv admin note: substantial text overlap with arXiv:2212.02045

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