321 research outputs found
The Erd\H{o}s-Rothschild problem on edge-colourings with forbidden monochromatic cliques
Let be a sequence of natural numbers. For a
graph , let denote the number of colourings of the edges
of with colours such that, for every , the
edges of colour contain no clique of order . Write
to denote the maximum of over all graphs on vertices.
This problem was first considered by Erd\H{o}s and Rothschild in 1974, but it
has been solved only for a very small number of non-trivial cases.
We prove that, for every and , there is a complete
multipartite graph on vertices with . Also, for every we construct a finite
optimisation problem whose maximum is equal to the limit of as tends to infinity. Our final result is a
stability theorem for complete multipartite graphs , describing the
asymptotic structure of such with in terms of solutions to the optimisation problem.Comment: 16 pages, to appear in Math. Proc. Cambridge Phil. So
Computing the chromatic number of t-(v,k,[lambda]) designs
Colouring t-designs has previously been shown to be an NP-complete problem; heuristics and a practical algorithm for this problem were developed for this thesis; the algorithm was then employed to find the chromatic numbers of the sixteen non- isomorphic 2-(25, 4, 1) designs and the four cyclic 2-(19, 3, 1) designs. This thesis additionally examines the existing literature on colouring and finding chromatic numbers of t-designs
New bounds for odd colourings of graphs
Given a graph , a vertex-colouring of , and a subset
, a colour is said to be \emph{odd} for
in if it has an odd number of occurrences in . We say that
is an \emph{odd colouring} of if it is proper and every (open)
neighbourhood has an odd colour in . The odd chromatic number of a
graph , denoted by , is the minimum such that an
odd colouring exists. In a recent paper, Caro,
Petru\v sevski and \v Skrekovski conjectured that every connected graph of
maximum degree has odd-chromatic number at most . We
prove that this conjecture holds asymptotically: for every connected graph
with maximum degree , as . We also prove that for every
. If moreover the minimum degree of is sufficiently large,
we have and . Finally, given an integer , we study the
generalisation of these results to -odd colourings, where every vertex
must have at least odd colours in its neighbourhood. Many
of our results are tight up to some multiplicative constant
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