activity
20242026
collaborators

6 papers

math.CO2026

Minimal Cayley graphs with large chromatic number

James Davies, Meike Hatzel, Liana Yepremyan

Resolving Babai's minimal Cayley graph problem, we construct finite minimal Cayley graphs with arbitrarily large chromatic number.

math.CO2026

Odd coloring graphs with linear neighborhood complexity

James Davies, Meike Hatzel, Kolja Knauer +2

We prove that any class of graphs with linear neighborhood complexity has bounded improper odd chromatic number. As a result, if is the class of all circle graphs, or…

math.CO2025

Girth in -representable matroids

James Davies, Meike Hatzel, Kolja Knauer +2

We prove a conjecture of Geelen, Gerards, and Whittle that for any finite field and any integer , every cosimple -representable matroid with sufficiently large gi…

math.CO2025

Strongly sublinear separators and bounded asymptotic dimension for sphere intersection graphs

James Davies, Agelos Georgakopoulos, Meike Hatzel +1

In this paper, we consider the class of sphere intersection graphs in for . We show that for each integer , the class of all graphs in $…

math.CO2025

Quasi-isometries between graphs with variable edge lengths

James Davies, Meike Hatzel, Robert Hickingbotham

This paper investigates quasi-isometries between graphs with variable edge lengths. A quasi-isometry is a mapping between metric spaces that approximately preserves distances, allo…

math.CO2024

Counterexample to Babai's lonely colour conjecture

James Davies, Meike Hatzel, Liana Yepremyan

Motivated by colouring minimal Cayley graphs, in 1978, Babai conjectured that no-lonely-colour graphs have bounded chromatic number. We disprove this in a strong sense by construct…