On the chromatic number of powers of subdivisions of graphs

For a given graph G = (V, E), we define its nth subdivision as the graph obtained from G by replacing every edge by a path of length n. We also define the mth power of G as the graph on vertex set V where we connect every pair of vertices at distance at most m in G. In this paper, we study the chrom...

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Autores: Anastos, Michael, Boyadzhiyska, Simona, Rathke, Silas, Rué Perna, Juan José|||0000-0002-6420-3179
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Fecha de publicación:2025
País:España
Institución:Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC)
Repositorio:UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/427204
Acceso en línea:https://hdl.handle.net/2117/427204
https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2024.10.002
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Teoria de grafs
Graph theory
Classificació AMS::05 Combinatorics::05C Graph theory
Àrees temàtiques de la UPC::Matemàtiques i estadística::Matemàtica discreta::Teoria de grafs
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Sumario:For a given graph G = (V, E), we define its nth subdivision as the graph obtained from G by replacing every edge by a path of length n. We also define the mth power of G as the graph on vertex set V where we connect every pair of vertices at distance at most m in G. In this paper, we study the chromatic number of powers of subdivisions of graphs and resolve the case m = n asymptotically. In particular, our result confirms a conjecture of Mozafari-Nia and Iradmusa in the case m = n = 3 in a strong sense.