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Measurable Brooks's Theorem for Directed Graphs

Logic 2026-04-09 v4 Combinatorics

Abstract

We prove a descriptive version of Brooks's theorem for directed graphs. In particular, we show that, if DD is a Borel directed graph on a standard Borel space XX such that the maximum degree of each vertex is at most d3d \geq 3, then unless DD contains the complete symmetric directed graph on d+1d + 1 vertices, DD admits a μ\mu-measurable dd-dicoloring with respect to any Borel probability measure μ\mu on XX, and DD admits a τ\tau-Baire-measurable dd-dicoloring with respect to any Polish topology τ\tau compatible with the Borel structure on XX. We also prove a definable version of Gallai's theorem on list dicolorings for directed graphs by showing that any Borel directed graph of bounded degree whose connected components are not Gallai trees is Borel degree-list-dicolorable.

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@article{arxiv.2405.00991,
  title  = {Measurable Brooks's Theorem for Directed Graphs},
  author = {Cecelia Higgins},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2405.00991},
  year   = {2026}
}

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19 pages. Final version

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