Note on Polychromatic Coloring of Hereditary Hypergraph Families
We exhibit a 5-uniform hypergraph that has no polychromatic 3-coloring, but all its restricted subhypergraphs with edges of size at least 3 are 2-colorable. This disproves a bold conjecture of Keszegh and the author, and can be considered as the first step to understand polychromatic colorings of hereditary hypergraph families better since the seminal work of Berge. We also show that our method cannot give hypergraphs of arbitrary high uniformity, and mention some connections to panchromatic colorings.
Authors
- Dömötör Pálvölgyi (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2970-0943)
Institutions
- Eötvös Loránd University (HU)
- HUN-REN Alfréd Rényi Institute of Mathematics (HU)
Publication Details
- Journal
- Graphs and Combinatorics
- Published
- 2024-11-22
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s00373-024-02836-y
- Primary Topic
- Advanced Topology and Set Theory
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 0.00
Funders
- Magyar Tudományos Akadémia
- Nemzeti Kutatási Fejlesztési és Innovációs Hivatal
- National Research, Development and Innovation Office
- HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council