An anagram is a word of the form WP where W is a non-empty word and P
is a permutation of W. We study anagram-free graph colouring and give bounds
on the chromatic number. Alon et al. (2002) asked whether anagram-free
chromatic number is bounded by a function of the maximum degree. We answer this
question in the negative by constructing graphs with maximum degree 3 and
unbounded anagram-free chromatic number. We also prove upper and lower bounds
on the anagram-free chromatic number of trees in terms of their radius and
pathwidth. Finally, we explore extensions to edge colouring and
k-anagram-free colouring.Comment: Version 2: Changed 'abelian square' to 'anagram' for consistency with
'Anagram-free colourings of graphs' by Kam\v{c}ev, {\L}uczak, and Sudakov.
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