Cereceda's quadratic recoloring diameter conjecture for degenerate graphs
Let be a -degenerate graph, and let be the graph whose vertices are the proper -colorings of , with two colorings adjacent when they differ on one vertex. The -recoloring diameter is the maximum distance between two vertices of , with disconnected having infinite diameter. Cereceda's conjecture. The -recoloring diameter of is at most quadratic when . This would improve the known connectivity result for -degenerate graphs to a quadratic bound on the number of single-vertex recolorings needed between any two proper colorings; the source does not state that the conjecture has been resolved.
References
Primary source
Yichen Wang and Mei Lu, “Linear recoloring diameter of degenerate chordal graphs and bounded treewidth graphs”, arXiv:2509.15456 (2025).
Additional references
7 papers in this index state this conjecture (2019–2025). The statement above is taken from the most recent of them; the others are arXiv:2509.03190, arXiv:2301.03417, arXiv:2209.05992, arXiv:2002.05383, arXiv:1907.01863, arXiv:1904.12698.
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