This paper considers the stable set and coloring problems of hypergraphs and presents several new results and algorithms using the semitensor product of matrices. By the definitions of an incidence matrix of a hypergraph and characteristic logical vector of a vertex subset, an equivalent algebraic condition is established for hypergraph stable sets, as well as a new algorithm, which can be used...

The concept of the incidence chromatic number of a graph was introduced by Brualdi and Massey (1993). They conjectured that every graph G can be incidence colored with ∆(G) + 2 colors. In this paper, we calculate the incidence chromatic numbers of the complete k-partite graphs and give the incidence chromatic number of three infinite families of graphs.

The concept of the incidence chromatic number of a graph was introduced by Brualdi and Massey (1993). They conjectured that every graph G can be incidence colored with ∆(G) + 2 colors. In this paper, we calculate the incidence chromatic numbers of the complete k-partite graphs and give the incidence chromatic number of three infinite families of graphs.

The incidence coloring conjecture, proposed by Brualdi and Massey in 1993, states that the incidence coloring number of every graph is at most ∆ + 2, where ∆ is the maximum degree of a graph. The conjecture was shown to be false in general by Guiduli in 1997, following the work of Algor and Alon. However, in 2005 Maydanskiy proved that the conjecture holds for any graph with ∆ ≤ 3. It is easily...

In this note we show that the concept of incidence coloring introduced in [BM] is a special case of directed star arboricity, introduced in [AA]. A conjecture in [BM] concerning asmyptotics of the incidence coloring number is solved in the negative following an example in [AA]. We generalize Theorem 2.1 of [AMR] concerning the star arboricity of graphs to the directed case by a slight modificat...

In 1993, Brualdi and Massey conjectured that every graph can be incidence colored with ∆+2 colors, where ∆ is the maximum degree of a graph. Although this conjecture was solved in the negative by an example in [1], it might hold for some special classes of graphs. In this paper, we consider graphs with maximum degree ∆ = 3 and show that the conjecture holds for cubic Hamiltonian graphs and some...