On Vizings edge colouring question

Soon after his 1964 seminal paper on edge colouring, Vizing asked the following question: can an optimal edge colouring be reached from any given proper edge colouring through a series of Kempe changes? We answer this question in the affirmative for triangle-free graphs.

KH{o}nigs Line Coloring and Vizings Theorems for Graphings

The classical theorem of Vizing states that every graph of maximum degree $d$ admits an edge-coloring with at most $d+1$ colors. Furthermore, as it was earlier shown by KH{o}nig, $d$ colors suffice if the graph is bipartite. We investigate the existence of measurable edge-colorings for graphings. A graphing is an analytic generalization of a bounded-degree graph that appears in various areas, such as sparse graph limits, orbit equivalence theory and measurable group theory. We show that every graphing of maximum degree $d$ admits a measurable edge-coloring with $d + O(sqrt{d})$ colors; furthermore, if the graphing has no odd cycles, then $d+1$ colors suffice. In fact, if a certain conjecture about finite graphs that strengthens Vizings theorem is true, then our method will show that $d+1$ colors are always enough.

Measurable sets with excluded distances

For a set of distances D={d_1,...,d_k} a set A is called D-avoiding if no pair of points of A is at distance d_i for some i. We show that the density of A is exponentially small in k provided the ratios d_1/d_2, d_2/d_3, ..., d_{k-1}/d_k are all small enough. This resolves a question of Szekely, and generalizes a theorem of Furstenberg-Katznelson-Weiss, Falconer-Marstrand, and Bourgain. Several more results on D-avoiding sets are presented.