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Contents
  1. Mixing of Random Colorings on General Graphs
  2. Definitions and mathematical statement
  3. Shared notation.
  4. Record scope and qualifications.
  5. Statement recorded in the supplied source.
  6. Source status.
  7. Short English statement
  8. Sources
  9. Preparation and review.
  10. Research attempt
  11. Literature, source context and scope
  12. A high-color coupling and the exact gap to the conjecture
  13. Verification and remaining gaps
  14. References and source attribution
  15. Integration review.
  16. Completion Estimate
  17. Final status and attribution

Mixing of Random Colorings on General Graphs

Definitions and mathematical statement

Shared notation.
Standard number systems are $\mathbb N,\mathbb Z,\mathbb Q,\mathbb R,\mathbb C$. Specialized notation and index ranges follow the cited source and the definitions below.

A proper $q$-coloring assigns one of $q$ colors to each vertex with unequal colors on adjacent vertices. Spatial mixing means boundary-condition influence decays with distance; temporal mixing means a sampling chain approaches its stationary coloring law.

Record scope and qualifications.
The catalogue title is retained as metadata. Named certificates, contracts, bounds or frameworks in that title are not asserted as results of the original source extract. The number of colors, degree range, coloring measure, dynamics, and desired rate are not specified in the supplied question.

Source-record limitation: The graph/color range, dynamics, stationary law, and requested mixing rate are not specified.

Statement recorded in the supplied source.
Establish spatial and temporal mixing properties for random proper colorings on general graphs. [S2]
Source status.
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Short English statement

Prove spatial and temporal mixing for random proper colorings on the stated graph classes.

Sources

  • S1 Ulam AI and the UnsolvedMath Contributors, UnsolvedMath: A Curated Collection of Open Mathematics Problems, record 30005913 (OWR-14298371-003). Catalogue curation and metadata: CC BY 4.0. The source extract is retained; definitions, English summaries and qualifications are editorial additions. https://huggingface.co/datasets/ulamai/UnsolvedMath.
  • S2 Complexity Theory $2024$, Oberwolfach Reports, DOI 10.4171/owr/2024/27, pp. 1517--1562 https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2024/27.
  • S3 Feng, Guo, Yin and Zhang, colorings https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08091.
  • Source-specific Oberwolfach Reports licences, including CC BY-SA 4.0 where applicable, are retained; see THIRD_PARTY_NOTICES.md.
Preparation and review.
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Research attempt

Literature, source context and scope

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A high-color coupling and the exact gap to the conjecture

The actual primary conjecture is $O(1)$ spectral independence for all proper $q$-colorings when $q\ge\Delta+2$. We prove only a familiar rapid-mixing bound in the more restrictive regime $q>2\Delta$. A mixing estimate alone is not asserted to prove the source spectral-independence statement. Let $G$ be a finite simple graph with $n\ge1$ vertices, maximum degree $\Delta$, and integer $q\ge2$ with $q>2\Delta$. At each step choose a vertex uniformly and recolor it uniformly from the colors absent at its neighbors, allowing its old color. Let $\pi$ be uniform on all proper colorings; this set is nonempty by sequential greedy coloring, since $q\ge\Delta+1$.
Proposition: Put $\kappa=(q-2\Delta)/(q-\Delta)>0$. From every proper starting coloring $\sigma$, \[ \|P^t(\sigma,\cdot)-\pi\|_{\rm TV}\le n e^{-\kappa t/n}. \]
Proof: Two colorings differing only at vertex $v$ have the same neighbor colors there, hence the same available set and identical forward/reverse transition probabilities. Other distinct states have zero transition in either direction. This proves detailed balance with the uniform law and therefore stationarity. Couple any two chains by choosing the same vertex $v$. Let $A,B$ be their available color sets. Couple their uniform choices maximally: match each common color with probability $\min\{1/|A|,1/|B|\}$, then couple the remaining disjoint residual masses. Their disagreement probability is \[ 1-\frac{|A\cap B|}{\max\{|A|,|B|\}}. \] Let $d_v$ be the number of neighbors on which the colorings disagree. Each color in either directional difference of available sets must be supplied by a disagreeing neighbor in the other coloring. Thus both directional differences have size at most $d_v$, and $|A|,|B|\ge q-\Delta$. The disagreement probability is at most $d_v/(q-\Delta)$. If $D$ denotes their current Hamming distance, updating $v$ removes its old disagreement and adds one with at most this probability. Averaging over $v$ gives \[ \mathbb E[D_{t+1}\mid\sigma_t,\tau_t] \le D_t-D_t/n+\frac{\sum_vd_v}{n(q-\Delta)} \le(1-\kappa/n)D_t, \] since each disagreeing vertex is counted in at most $\Delta$ neighbor lists. Iteration gives $\mathbb ED_t\le n(1-\kappa/n)^t\le ne^{-\kappa t/n}$. Start the second chain at stationarity. For any event, the difference of the two probabilities is at most the probability of unequal coupled states, which is at most $\mathbb ED_t$. Taking the supremum over events proves the result. ∎
This direct all-pairs coupling needs no unproved path-coupling lemma. At the target boundary $q=\Delta+2$, its coefficient $\kappa$ is nonpositive once $\Delta\ge2$ (zero at two), so this estimate supplies no contraction there. Better influence control is precisely the missing step. Frozen colorings of $K_q$ at $q=\Delta+1$ do not refute the source conjecture, because they lie outside its range.

Verification and remaining gaps

Available-set total variations and the full Hamming contraction were exhaustively checked for small graphs and every pair of proper colorings. Transition-matrix stationarity and finite-time TV bounds were checked separately. The result is a known high-color regime, explicitly credited as an auxiliary route. Neither spectral independence at $q\ge\Delta+2$ nor arbitrary pinned-list variants are proved.

References and source attribution

Primary workshop report: https://doi.org/10.4171/owr/2024/27. Relevant passages read: 2024/27 p.1533, exact q>=Delta+2 spectral-independence conjecture and stated special regimes.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2007.08058. Read primary abstract on spectral independence for triangle-free colorings; its restricted parameter regime is not identified with the full source conjecture.

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Integration review.
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Completion Estimate

COMPLETION: 0% No substantiated new progress toward the entire original target is claimed. The worked results and failed route are delimited above; a known result, illustrative model, or auxiliary obstruction is not counted as original-target completion.

Final status and attribution

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