TY - JOUR
T1 - Mixing properties of colourings of the Zd lattice
AU - Alon, Noga
AU - Briceño, Raimundo
AU - Chandgotia, Nishant
AU - Magazinov, Alexander
AU - Spinka, Yinon
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Copyright 2020 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2020
Y1 - 2020
N2 - We study and classify proper q-colourings of the Zd lattice, identifying three regimes where different combinatorial behaviour holds. (1) When q ≦ d + 1, there exist frozen colourings, that is, proper q-colourings of Zd which cannot be modified on any finite subset. (2) We prove a strong list-colouring property which implies that, when q ≧ d + 2, any proper q-colouring of the boundary of a box of side length n ≧ d + 2 can be extended to a proper q-colouring of the entire box. (3) When q ≧ 2d + 1, the latter holds for any n≧ 1. Consequently, we classify the space of proper q-colourings of the Zd lattice by their mixing properties.
AB - We study and classify proper q-colourings of the Zd lattice, identifying three regimes where different combinatorial behaviour holds. (1) When q ≦ d + 1, there exist frozen colourings, that is, proper q-colourings of Zd which cannot be modified on any finite subset. (2) We prove a strong list-colouring property which implies that, when q ≧ d + 2, any proper q-colouring of the boundary of a box of side length n ≧ d + 2 can be extended to a proper q-colouring of the entire box. (3) When q ≧ 2d + 1, the latter holds for any n≧ 1. Consequently, we classify the space of proper q-colourings of the Zd lattice by their mixing properties.
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U2 - 10.1017/S0963548320000395
DO - 10.1017/S0963548320000395
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85093690508
JO - Combinatorics Probability and Computing
JF - Combinatorics Probability and Computing
SN - 0963-5483
ER -