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Frankl-Hubai-Pálvölgyi Graph


FranklHubaiPalvolgyiGraph

The Frankl-Hubai-Pálvölgyi graph is a name used here for the 35-vertex, 106-edge graph illustrated above. It encodes the 34-point unit-distance graph G_(34) of Frankl, Hubai, and Pálvölgyi (2023), which has no proper 4-coloring when its distinguished origin is allowed two colors. The 35-vertex encoding replaces the origin by two coincident vertices, joins them by a distance-0 edge, and gives both copies the origin's unit-distance neighbors. Thus, an ordinary proper coloring assigns two distinct colors to the origin while excluding both colors from its neighbors. The resulting abstract graph has chromatic number 5.

Frankl et al. (2023) described G_(34) as the first example found whose relevant coloring property could be checked quickly without a computer. They used it in a proposed route to a human-verifiable lower bound of 5 for the Hadwiger-Nelson problem.

The Frankl-Hubai-Pálvölgyi graph will be implemented in a future version of the Wolfram Language as GraphData["FranklHubaiPalvolgyiGraph"].


See also

Chromatic Number, Hadwiger-Nelson Problem, Unit-Distance Graph

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References

Frankl, N.; Hubai, T.; and Pálvölgyi, D. "Almost-Monochromatic Sets and the Chromatic Number of the Plane." Discrete Comput. Geom. 70, 753-772, 2023. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00454-023-00526-9.

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Weisstein, Eric W. "Frankl-Hubai-Pálvölgyi Graph." From MathWorld--A Wolfram Resource. https://mathworld.wolfram.com/Frankl-Hubai-PalvolgyiGraph.html

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