The star chromatic index of a graph is the minimum number of colors needed to properly color the edges of the graph so that no path or cycle of length four is bi-colored.
Question Is it true that for every (sub)cubic graph , we have ?
A covering design, or covering, is a family of -subsets, called blocks, chosen from a -set, such that each -subset is contained in at least one of the blocks. The number of blocks is the covering’s size, and the minimum size of such a covering is denoted by .
Problem Find a closed form, recurrence, or better bounds for . Find a procedure for constructing minimal coverings.
Question What is the least integer such that every set of at least points in the plane contains collinear points or a subset of points in general position (no three collinear)?
Let be a non-empty finite set. Given a partition of , the stabilizer of , denoted , is the group formed by all permutations of preserving each block of .
Problem () Find a sufficient condition for a sequence of partitions of to be complete, i.e. such that the product of their stabilizers is equal to the whole symmetric group on . In particular, what about completeness of the sequence , given a partition of and a permutation of ?
Conjecture (Beneš) Let be a uniform partition of and be a permutation of such that . Suppose that the set is transitive, for some integer . Then
Conjecture Denote by the number of non-Hamiltonian 3-regular graphs of size , and similarly denote by the number of non-Hamiltonian 3-regular 1-connected graphs of size .
Conjecture Is the approximation ratio for the Maximum Edge Disjoint Paths (MaxEDP) or the Maximum Integer Multiflow problem (MaxIMF) bounded by a constant in -outerplanar graphs or tree-width graphs?
Conjecture Let be a graph and be a positive integer. The power of , denoted by , is defined on the vertex set , by connecting any two distinct vertices and with distance at most . In other words, . Also subdivision of , denoted by , is constructed by replacing each edge of with a path of length . Note that for , we have . Now we can define the fractional power of a graph as follows: Let be a graph and . The graph is defined by the power of the subdivision of . In other words . Conjecture. Let be a connected graph with and be a positive integer greater than 1. Then for any positive integer , we have . In [1], it was shown that this conjecture is true in some special cases.
Conjecture Let be a simple graph with vertices and list chromatic number . Suppose that and each vertex of is assigned a list of colors. Then at least vertices of can be colored from these lists.
If is a finite set of points which is 2-colored, an empty triangle is a set with so that the convex hull of is disjoint from . We say that is monochromatic if all points in are the same color.
Conjecture There exists a fixed constant with the following property. If is a set of points in general position which is 2-colored, then it has monochromatic empty triangles.
Conjecture For which values of and are there bi-colored graphs on vertices and different colors with the property that all the monochromatic colorings have unit weight, and every other coloring cancels out?
The problem concerns the extension of Monadic Second Order Logic (over a binary relation representing the edge relation) with the following atomic formulas:
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where is a fixed recursive set of integers.
Let us fix and a closed formula in this language.
Conjecture Is it true that the validity of for a graph of tree-width at most can be tested in polynomial time in the size of ?
Conjecture Let is a family of multifuncoids such that each is of the form where is an index set for every and is a set for every . Let every for some multifuncoid of the form regarding the filtrator . Let is a graph-composition of (regarding some partition and external set ). Then there exist a multifuncoid of the form such that regarding the filtrator .
Let be a set of points in the plane. Two points and in are visible with respect to if the line segment between and contains no other point in .
Conjecture For all integers there is an integer such that every set of at least points in the plane contains at least collinear points or pairwise visible points.