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CID 2003 Abstracts - Colourings, Independence and Domination

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30 abstracts<br />

COLOURING OF CONFIGURATIONS<br />

Harald Gropp<br />

Universität Heidelberg, Germany<br />

A configuration is a linear regular uniform hypergraph. Since configurations<br />

are much older than hypergraphs (they are even older than graphs), usually a<br />

geometric language of points <strong>and</strong> lines is used.<br />

The points are coloured by assigning a number (the colour) from 1 to n to<br />

each point. A colouring is allowed if certain conditions are fulfilled. The usual<br />

condition is that every line (or hyperedge) contains two points with different<br />

colours. This leads to the definition of the chromatic number. In particular,<br />

the existence problem of blocking sets of configurations is related to the usual<br />

colouring.<br />

The colouring of mixed hypergraphs (introduced by Voloshin) leads to the<br />

definition of the upper chromatic number. Here also anti-edges or C-edges<br />

are coloured such that every such C-edge contains two vertices with the same<br />

colour.<br />

Keywords: configurations, hypergraphs, colouring, chromatic number, upper<br />

chromatic number.<br />

AMS Subject Classification: 05B30, 05C15.

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