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altermatic

UK/ˌɒl.təˈmæt.ɪk/US/ˌɔl.təɹˈmæt.ɪk/

altermatic adjective: describing a certain combinatorial lower bound of a chromatic number of a graph.

Adjective

altermatic (not comparable)

  1. Describing a certain combinatorial lower bound of a chromatic number of a graph.
    • In this paper, as a generalization of the well-known result of Schrijver about the chromatic number of Schrijver graphs, we determine the chromatic number of a large family of matching graphs by specifying their altermatic number.2015, Meysam Alishahi, Hossein Hajiabolhassan, “On The Chromatic Number of Matching Graphs”, in arXiv

Origin of altermatic

Coined by mathematicians Meysam Alishahiand and Hossein Hajiabolhassan in 2014 for the 2015 paper "On the chromatic number of general Kneser hypergraphs" as a blend of alternating + chromatic on the grounds that the chromatic bound is given by a longest subsequence in which every pair of consecutive terms differs (loosely, the subsequence "alternates").

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Questions about altermatic

What does altermatic mean?
Altermatic means describing a certain combinatorial lower bound of a chromatic number of a graph.
What part of speech is altermatic?
Altermatic is an adjective.
How do you pronounce altermatic?
Altermatic is pronounced /ˌɒl.təˈmæt.ɪk/ (UK).

Words near altermatic in the dictionary

  1. alteritism
  2. alterity
  3. altermagnetism
  4. Alterman
  5. Altermans
  6. altermatic
  7. altern
  8. alterna-rock
  9. alterna-teen
  10. alterna-teens
  11. alternacies

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