Cereceda's quadratic recoloring diameter conjecture for degenerate graphs

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Let GG be a dd-degenerate graph, and let Rt(G)R_t(G) be the graph whose vertices are the proper tt-colorings of GG, with two colorings adjacent when they differ on one vertex. The tt-recoloring diameter is the maximum distance between two vertices of Rt(G)R_t(G), with disconnected Rt(G)R_t(G) having infinite diameter. Cereceda's conjecture. The tt-recoloring diameter of GG is at most quadratic when t≥d+2t \ge d+2. This would improve the known connectivity result for dd-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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