Eventual equality of list colorings and colorings for edgeless graphs

Let Kn\overline{K}_n be an unlabeled, edgeless graph on nn vertices. The functions P(Kn,k)P_{\ell}(\overline{K}_n,k) and P(Kn,k)P(\overline{K}_n,k) count, respectively, unlabeled list colorings and unlabeled proper colorings with kk colors.

Eventual equality conjecture. For each nNn \in \mathbb{N}, there is an NNN \in \mathbb{N} such that

P(Kn,k)=P(Kn,k)P_{\ell}(\overline{K}_n,k)=P(\overline{K}_n,k)

whenever kNk \geq N.

The conjecture concerns disconnected unlabeled graphs with repeated isomorphic connected components. The preceding discussion notes that equality can fail for small values of kk, while asserting that the two counting functions should eventually agree for every fixed nn.

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Primary source

Hemanshu Kaul and Jeffrey A. Mudrock, “Counting List Colorings of Unlabeled Graphs”, arXiv:2409.06063 (2026).

Additional references

2 papers in this index state this conjecture (2021–2024). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2102.10916.

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