Equitable colourings of Borel graphs

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Abstract: Hajnal and Szemer'{e}di proved that if G is a finite graph with maximum degree Delta, then for every integer kgeqslantDelta+1, G has a proper coloring with k colors in which every two color classes differ in size at most by 1; such colorings are called equitable. We obtain an analog of this result for infinite graphs in the Borel setting. Specifically, we show that if G is an aperiodic Borel graph of finite maximum degree Delta, then for each kgeqslantDelta+1, G has a Borel proper k-coloring in which every two color classes are related by an element of the Borel full semigroup of G. In particular, such colorings are equitable with respect to every G-invariant probability measure. We also establish a measurable version of a result of Kostochka and Nakprasit on equitable Delta-colorings of graphs with small average degree. Namely, we prove that if Deltageqslant3, G does not contain a clique on Delta+1 vertices, and mu is an atomless G-invariant probability measure such that the average degree of G with respect to mu is at most Delta/5, then G has a mu-equitable Delta-coloring. As steps towards the proof of this result, we establish measurable and list coloring extensions of a strengthening of Brooks's theorem due to Kostochka and Nakprasit.









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