Colour-critical vertex 2026-10-06
A vertex is colour-critical if deleting it lowers the chromatic number by one. If and , an embedding of into a complete -partite graph inside one neighbourhood extends to an embedding of . This supplies maximum-degree obstructions in extremal graph theory.
Extremal hypergraph theory studies the largest or smallest possible size of a hypergraph under prescribed forbidden-subhypergraph or covering conditions. It generalizes extremal graph theory. The Turán density describes the asymptotic maximum edge proportion for a fixed uniform forbidden hypergraph.