Nonrepetitive Graph Colouring

A vertex colouring of a graph $G$ is nonrepetitive if $G$ contains no path for which the first half of the path is assigned the same sequence of colours as the second half. Thue's famous theorem says that every path is nonrepetitively 3-colourable. This paper surveys results about nonrepetitive colourings of graphs. The goal is to give a unified and comprehensive presentation of the major results and proof methods, as well as to highlight numerous open problems.

On Asymmetric Colourings of Claw-Free Graphs

A vertex colouring of a graph is asymmetric if it is preserved only by the identity automorphism. The minimum number of colours needed for an asymmetric colouring of a graph $G$ is called the asymmetric colouring number or distinguishing number $D(G)$ of $G$. It is well known that $D(G)$ is closely related to the least number of vertices moved by any non-identity automorphism, the so-called motion $m(G)$ of $G$. Large motion is usually correlated with small $D(G)$. Recently, Babai posed the question whether there exists a function $f(d)$ such that every connected, countable graph $G$ with maximum degree $\Delta(G)\leq d$ and motion $m(G)>f(d)$ has an asymmetric $2$-colouring, with at most finitely many exceptions for every degree. We prove the following result: if $G$ is a connected, countable graph of maximum degree at most 4, without an induced claw $K_{1,3}$, then $D(G)= 2$ whenever $m(G)>2$, with three exceptional small graphs. This answers the question of Babai for $d=4$ in the class of~claw-free graphs.

Clustered 3-colouring graphs of bounded degree

A (not necessarily proper) vertex colouring of a graph has clustering c if every monochromatic component has at most c vertices. We prove that planar graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$ are 3-colourable with clustering $O(\Delta^2)$ . The previous best bound was $O(\Delta^{37})$ . This result for planar graphs generalises to graphs that can be drawn on a surface of bounded Euler genus with a bounded number of crossings per edge. We then prove that graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$ that exclude a fixed minor are 3-colourable with clustering $O(\Delta^5)$ . The best previous bound for this result was exponential in $\Delta$ .

Vertex Colouring Edge Weightings: a Logarithmic Upper Bound on Weight-Choosability

A graph $G$ is said to be $(k,m)$-choosable if for any assignment of $k$-element lists $L_v \subset \mathbb{R}$ to the vertices $v \in V(G)$ and any assignment of $m$-element lists $L_e \subset \mathbb{R}$ to the edges $e \in E(G)$ there exists a total weighting $w: V(G) \cup E(G) \rightarrow \mathbb{R}$ of $G$ such that $w(v) \in L_v$ for any vertex $v \in V(G)$ and $w(e) \in L_e$ for any edge $e \in E(G)$ and furthermore, such that for any pair of adjacent vertices $u,v$, we have $w(u)+ \sum_{e \in E(u)}w(e) \neq w(v)+ \sum_{e \in E(v)}w(e)$, where $E(u)$ and $E(v)$ denote the edges incident to $u$ and $v$ respectively. In this paper we give an algorithmic proof showing that any graph $G$ without isolated edges is $(1, 2 \lceil \log_2(\Delta(G)) \rceil+1)$-choosable, where $\Delta(G)$ denotes the maximum degree in $G$.

The achromatic number of K_{6} □ K_{7} is 18

A vertex colouring \(f:V(G)\to C\) of a graph \(G\) is complete if for any two distinct colours \(c_1, c_2 \in C\) there is an edge \(\{v_1,v_2\}\in E(G)\) such that \(f(v_i)=c_i\), \(i=1,2\). The achromatic number of \(G\) is the maximum number \(\text{achr}(G)\) of colours in a proper complete vertex colouring of \(G\). In the paper it is proved that \(\text{achr}(K_6 \square K_7)=18\). This result finalises the determination of \(\text{achr}(K_6 \square K_q)\).

A simplified disproof of Beck’s three permutations conjecture and an application to root-mean-squared discrepancy

A k-permutation family on n vertices is a set-system consisting of the intervals of k permutations of the integers 1 to n. The discrepancy of a set-system is the minimum over all red–blue vertex colourings of the maximum difference between the number of red and blue vertices in any set in the system. In 2011, Newman and Nikolov disproved a conjecture of Beck that the discrepancy of any 3-permutation family is at most a constant independent of n. Here we give a simpler proof that Newman and Nikolov’s sequence of 3-permutation families has discrepancy $\Omega (\log \,n)$ . We also exhibit a sequence of 6-permutation families with root-mean-squared discrepancy $\Omega (\sqrt {\log \,n} )$ ; that is, in any red–blue vertex colouring, the square root of the expected squared difference between the number of red and blue vertices in an interval of the system is $\Omega (\sqrt {\log \,n} )$ .

Algoritma Welch-Powell Untuk Pewarnaan Graf pada Penjadwalan Perkuliahan

Scheduling is a principal administrative activity in most universities. The problem that often faced is the lecture timetable and course distribution are still manually and have not fully paid attention to the field of science that matches the interests of the lecturer. To overcome these problems, the authors use Welch-Powell's algorithm to arrange lecture arrangement schedules with expectations that the scheduling will be faster and optimal and more satisfying to various parties. The results of applying Welch-Powell's Algorithm to the willingness of lecturers to teach available courses provide four colors. The results are used to map lecturers and subjects that are supported by class availability to ensure that lecturers with the same course choices must be placed in different classes. In meeting class needs, one lecturer can handle several subjects, and several lecturers can teach one subject. The results of applying the Welch-Powell Algorithm to the suitability of teaching time give 29 colours. These results are used to map lecture time to ensure that lecturers with the same choice of time should be provided in different classes. Keywords: Vertex, Colouring, Welch-Powell's algorithm

Sharp concentration of the equitable chromatic number of dense random graphs

An equitable colouring of a graph G is a vertex colouring where no two adjacent vertices are coloured the same and, additionally, the colour class sizes differ by at most 1. The equitable chromatic number χ=(G) is the minimum number of colours required for this. We study the equitable chromatic number of the dense random graph ${\mathcal{G}(n,m)}$ where $m = \left\lfloor {p\left( \matrix{ n \cr 2 \cr} \right)} \right\rfloor $ and 0 < p < 0.86 is constant. It is a well-known question of Bollobás [3] whether for p = 1/2 there is a function f(n) → ∞ such that, for any sequence of intervals of length f(n), the normal chromatic number of ${\mathcal{G}(n,m)}$ lies outside the intervals with probability at least 1/2 if n is large enough. Bollobás proposes that this is likely to hold for f(n) = log n. We show that for the equitable chromatic number, the answer to the analogous question is negative. In fact, there is a subsequence ${({n_j})_j}_{ \in {\mathbb {N}}}$ of the integers where $\chi_=({\mathcal{G}(n_j,m_j)})$ is concentrated on exactly one explicitly known value. This constitutes surprisingly narrow concentration since in this range the equitable chromatic number, like the normal chromatic number, is rather large in absolute value, namely asymptotically equal to n/(2logbn) where b = 1/(1 − p).

The local antimagic on disjoint union of some family graphs

A graph in this paper is nontrivial, finite, connected, simple, and undirected. Graph consists of a vertex set and edge set. Let u,v be two elements in vertex set, and q is the cardinality of edge set in G, a bijective function from the edge set to the first q natural number is called a vertex local antimagic edge labelling if for any two adjacent vertices and , the weight of is not equal with the weight of , where the weight of (denoted by ) is the sum of labels of edges that are incident to . Furthermore, any vertex local antimagic edge labelling induces a proper vertex colouring on where is the colour on the vertex . The vertex local antimagic chromatic number is the minimum number of colours taken over all colourings induced by vertex local antimagic edge labelling of . In this paper, we discuss about the vertex local antimagic chromatic number on disjoint union of some family graphs, namely path, cycle, star, and friendship, and also determine the lower bound of vertex local antimagic chromatic number of disjoint union graphs. The chromatic numbers of disjoint union graph in this paper attend the lower bound.