{"title":"Packing Colourings in Complete Bipartite Graphs and the Inverse Problem for Correspondence Packing","authors":"Stijn Cambie, Rimma Hämäläinen","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23215","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.23215","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>Applications of graph colouring often involve taking restrictions into account, and it is desirable to have multiple (disjoint) solutions. In the optimal case, where there is a partition into disjoint colourings, we speak of a packing. However, even for complete bipartite graphs, the list chromatic number can be arbitrarily large, and its exact determination is generally difficult. For the packing variant, this question becomes even harder. In this paper, we study the correspondence- and list-packing numbers of (asymmetric) complete bipartite graphs. In the most asymmetric cases, Latin squares come into play. Our results show that every <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>z</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>∈</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mi>Z</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>+</mo>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 \u0000 <mo></mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>{</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>}</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" altimg=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt23215:jgt23215-math-0001\" wiley:location=\"equation/jgt23215-math-0001.png\"><mrow><mrow><mi>z</mi><mo>unicode{x02208}</mo><msup><mi mathvariant=\"double-struck\">Z</mi><mo>unicode{x0002B}</mo></msup><mo>unicode{x0005C}</mo><mrow><mo class=\"MathClass-open\">{</mo><mn>3</mn><mo class=\"MathClass-close\">}</mo></mrow></mrow></mrow></math></annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> can be equal to the correspondence packing number of a graph. We disprove a recent conjecture that relates the list packing number and the list flexibility number. Additionally, we improve the threshold functions for the correspondence packing variant.</p>\u0000 </div>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"109 1","pages":"52-61"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2025-01-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143612344","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"C10 Has Positive Turán Density in the Hypercube","authors":"Alexandr Grebennikov, João Pedro Marciano","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23217","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.23217","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" altimg=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt23217:jgt23217-math-0001\" wiley:location=\"equation/jgt23217-math-0001.png\"><mrow><mrow><mi>n</mi></mrow></mrow></math></annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-dimensional hypercube <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msub>\u0000 <mi>Q</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </msub>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" altimg=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt23217:jgt23217-math-0002\" wiley:location=\"equation/jgt23217-math-0002.png\"><mrow><mrow><msub><mi>Q</mi><mi>n</mi></msub></mrow></mrow></math></annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is a graph with vertex set <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>{</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>0</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>}</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" altimg=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt23217:jgt23217-math-0003\" wiley:location=\"equation/jgt23217-math-0003.png\"><mrow><mrow><msup><mrow><mo class=\"MathClass-open\">{</mo><mrow><mn>0</mn><mo>,</mo><mn>1</mn></mrow><mo class=\"MathClass-close\">}</mo></mrow><mi>n</mi></msup></mrow></mrow></math></annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> such that there is an edge between two vertices if and only if they differ in exactly one coordinate. For any graph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>H</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> <math xmlns=\"http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML\" altimg=\"urn:x-wiley:03649024:media:jgt23217:j","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"109 1","pages":"31-34"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143612491","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A Construction of a 3/2-Tough Plane Triangulation With No 2-Factor","authors":"Songling Shan","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23209","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.23209","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>In 1956, Tutte proved the celebrated theorem that every 4-connected planar graph is Hamiltonian. This result implies that every more than <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mfrac>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </mfrac>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $frac{3}{2}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-tough planar graph on at least three vertices is Hamiltonian and so has a 2-factor. Owens in 1999 constructed non-Hamiltonian maximal planar graphs of toughness arbitrarily close to <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mfrac>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </mfrac>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $frac{3}{2}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> and asked whether there exists a maximal non-Hamiltonian planar graph of toughness exactly <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mfrac>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </mfrac>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $frac{3}{2}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>. In fact, the graphs Owens constructed do not even contain a 2-factor. Thus the toughness of exactly <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mfrac>\u0000 <mn>3</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>2</mn>\u0000 </mfrac>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $frac{3}{2}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is the only case left in asking the existence of 2-factors in tough planar graphs. This question was also asked by Bauer, Broersma, and Schmeichel in a survey. In this paper, we close this gap by cons","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"109 1","pages":"5-18"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143612531","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Equitable List Coloring of Planar Graphs With Given Maximum Degree","authors":"H. A. Kierstead, Alexandr Kostochka, Zimu Xiang","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23203","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.23203","url":null,"abstract":"<p>If <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>L</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $L$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is a list assignment of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>r</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $r$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> colors to each vertex of an <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $n$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-vertex graph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $G$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>, then an <i>equitable</i> <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>L</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $L$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-<i>coloring</i> of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $G$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is a proper coloring of vertices of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $G$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> from their lists such that no color is used more than <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mo>⌈</mo>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 <mo>/</mo>\u0000 <mi>r</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <mo>⌉</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $lceil n/rrceil $</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> times. A graph is <i>equitably</i> <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>r</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $r$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-<i>choosable</i> if it has an equitable <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>L</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $L$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-coloring for every <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>r</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $r$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-list assignment <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>L</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"108 4","pages":"832-838"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.23203","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143456080","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On the Pre- and Post-Positional Semi-Random Graph Processes","authors":"Pu Gao, Hidde Koerts","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23202","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.23202","url":null,"abstract":"<p>We study the semi-random graph process, and a variant process recently suggested by Nick Wormald. We show that these two processes are asymptotically equally fast in constructing a semi-random graph <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>G</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $G$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> that has property <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>P</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${mathscr{P}}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>, for the following examples of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>P</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${mathscr{P}}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>: (1) <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>P</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${mathscr{P}}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is the set of graphs containing a fixed <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>d</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $d$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-degenerate subgraph, where <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>d</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>≥</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $dge 1$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is fixed and (2) <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>P</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> ${mathscr{P}}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is the set of <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $k$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-connected graphs, where <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>≥</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mn>1</mn>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $kge 1$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> is fixed. In particular, our result of the <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $k$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>-connectedness above settles the open case <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>k</mi>\u0000 \u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"108 4","pages":"819-831"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.23202","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143455949","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"On a Question of Erdős and Nešetřil About Minimal Cuts in a Graph","authors":"Domagoj Bradač","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23207","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.23207","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Answering a question of Erdős and Nešetřil, we show that the maximum number of inclusion-wise minimal vertex cuts in a graph on <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $n$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> vertices is at most <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mn>1.889</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <msup>\u0000 <mn>9</mn>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </msup>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $1.889{9}^{n}$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math> for large enough <span></span><math>\u0000 <semantics>\u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation> $n$</annotation>\u0000 </semantics></math>.</p>","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"108 4","pages":"817-818"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/jgt.23207","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143455745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Hypergraph Anti-Ramsey Theorems","authors":"Xizhi Liu, Jialei Song","doi":"10.1002/jgt.23204","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/jgt.23204","url":null,"abstract":"<div>\u0000 \u0000 <p>The anti-Ramsey number <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mtext>ar</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>(</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>,</mo>\u0000 \u0000 <mi>F</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 \u0000 <mo>)</mo>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>\u0000 $text{ar}(n,F)$\u0000</annotation>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </math> of an <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>r</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>\u0000 $r$\u0000</annotation>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </math>-graph <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>F</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>\u0000 $F$\u0000</annotation>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </math> is the minimum number of colors needed to color the complete <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>n</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>\u0000 $n$\u0000</annotation>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </math>-vertex <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>r</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>\u0000 $r$\u0000</annotation>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </math>-graph to ensure the existence of a rainbow copy of <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>F</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>\u0000 $F$\u0000</annotation>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </math>. We establish a removal-type result for the anti-Ramsey problem of <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>F</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>\u0000 $F$\u0000</annotation>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </math> when <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mi>F</mi>\u0000 </mrow>\u0000 <annotation>\u0000 $F$\u0000</annotation>\u0000 </semantics>\u0000 </math> is the expansion of a hypergraph with a smaller uniformity. We present two applications of this result. First, we refine the general bound <span></span><math>\u0000 \u0000 <semantics>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 <mtext>ar</mtext>\u0000 \u0000 <mrow>\u0000 ","PeriodicalId":16014,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Graph Theory","volume":"108 4","pages":"808-816"},"PeriodicalIF":0.9,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143455744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"数学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}