\(2\times n\) grids have unbounded anagram-free chromatic number (Q2170797)

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    \(2\times n\) grids have unbounded anagram-free chromatic number
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      \(2\times n\) grids have unbounded anagram-free chromatic number (English)
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      6 September 2022
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      Summary: We show that anagram-free vertex colouring a \(2\times n\) square grid requires a number of colours that increases with \(n\). This answers an open question in \textit{T. E. Wilson}'s thesis [Anagram-free graph colouring and colour schemes. Melbourne: Monash University (PhD Thesis) (2019)] and shows that there are even graphs of pathwidth \(2\) that do not have anagram-free colourings with a bounded number of colours.
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      abelian square-free sequences
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      \(k\)-anagram-free colouring
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