Extremal H-colorings of trees and 2-connected graphs

DOI10.1016/J.JCTB.2016.09.009zbMATH Open1350.05033arXiv1506.05388OpenAlexW2228991476MaRDI QIDQ345129FDOQ345129

Authors: John Engbers, David Galvin 

Publication date: 25 November 2016

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Theory. Series B (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: For graphs $G$ and $H$, an $H$-coloring of $G$ is an adjacency preserving map from the vertices of $G$ to the vertices of $H$. $H$-colorings generalize such notions as independent sets and proper colorings in graphs. There has been much recent research on the extremal question of finding the graph(s) among a fixed family that maximize or minimize the number of $H$-colorings. In this paper, we prove several results in this area. First, we find a class of graphs $mathcalH$ with the property that for each $HinmathcalH$, the $n$-vertex tree that minimizes the number of $H$-colorings is the path $P_n$. We then present a new proof of a theorem of Sidorenko, valid for large $n$, that for every $H$ the star $K_{1,n-1}$ is the $n$-vertex tree that maximizes the number of $H$-colorings. Our proof uses a stability technique which we also use to show that for any non-regular $H$ (and certain regular $H$) the complete bipartite graph $K_{2,n-2}$ maximizes the number of $H$-colorings of $n$-vertex $2$-connected graphs. Finally, we show that the cycle $C_n$ maximizes the number of proper colorings of $n$-vertex $2$-connected graphs.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1506.05388

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zbMATH Keywords

graph coloringgraph homomorphismsWidom-Rowlinson model\(H\)-coloring2-connected graphsLondon-Hoffman inequality

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Trees (05C05) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15)

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