Network Theory and Combinatorial Optimization
His research lies in the area of combinatorial optimization on networks, with a particular focus on resource allocation under interaction constraints. While matching problems seek optimal pairings between agents—for example, assigning workers to firms, students to schools, or donors to recipients—graph coloring addresses a complementary class of problems in which scarce resources must be assigned across a network while avoiding conflicts. Examples include allocating communication frequencies, scheduling activities, assigning processors in distributed systems, or organizing tasks that cannot occur simultaneously. Both matching and coloring study how network structure determines the existence and efficiency of feasible allocations, making them fundamental tools in modern network science and closely related to several questions studied in network economics.
He has worked on total coloring and strong coloring, two fundamental graph-coloring problems that have been central topics in graph theory for several decades. At their core, these problems seek to determine the minimum number of colors required under increasingly restrictive adjacency and incidence constraints. Despite their deceptively simple formulation, many fundamental questions—including exact coloring numbers, structural characterizations, and long-standing conjectures—remain unresolved even for important classes of graphs. His work develops structural and combinatorial techniques for establishing optimal coloring results across a broad range of graph families. By combining structural analysis with constructive methods, he obtains exact coloring results and establish new sufficient conditions for these fundamental graph-coloring problems.
Publications:
A. Dalal and B. S. Panda, A sufficient condition for complete multipartite graphs to be of Type 1, Discrete Mathematics, 349(4) (2026), 114896.
A. Dalal, J. McDonald and S. Shan, A reduction of the “cycles plus K_4’s” problem, Discrete Mathematics 349 (2026), 114696.
A. Dalal, J. McDonald and S. Shan, Total coloring graphs with large maximum degree, Journal of Graph Theory, 110 (2025), 249–262.
A. Dalal, B. S. Panda and C. A. Rodger, Total coloring of complete multipartite graphs using amalgamations, Discrete Applied Mathematics, 359 (2024), 186-195.
A. Dalal and B. S. Panda, Total-colorings of complete multipartite graphs using amalgamations, Discrete Mathematics, 339(5) (2016), 1587-1592.
A. Dalal and C. A. Rodger, The total chromatic number of complete multipartite graphs with low deficiency, Graphs and Combinatorics, 31(6) (2015), 2159-2173.
B. V. Srinivasan, A. Natarajan, A. Dalal, M. Yenugula, P. Srikanthan and A. Layek, Topic-based Targeted Influence Maximization, Proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Communication Systems and Networks (COMSNETS), India, IEEE, (2014) 1-6.
Analytic Theory of Polynomials
Polynomials are among the most fundamental objects in mathematics, with applications ranging from approximation theory and numerical computation to control theory and optimization. A central problem in complex analysis is understanding the location of the zeros of polynomials and establishing inequalities that describe their behaviour. These questions have been studied extensively for over a century and continue to play an important role in classical analysis and its applications.
His research develops new inequalities and improved bounds for the location of polynomial zeros in the complex plane. This work extends several classical results in polynomial theory and contributes to the broader literature on complex analysis and analytic inequalities by providing improved estimates and new theoretical insights into the geometry of polynomial zeros.
Publications
A. Dalal and N. K. Govil, Bernstein-type inequalities for self-reciprocal polynomails, Journal of Approximation Theory, 320C (2026) 106333.
A. Dalal and N. K. Govil, Inequalities for polynomials satisfying $p(z) \equiv z^np(1/z)$, Acta Mathematica Hungarica, 172(1) (2024), 146-160.
A. Dalal and N. K. Govil, A note on sharpening of a theorem of Ankeny and Rivlin, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics, 17(1) (2021), 273-281.
A. Dalal and N. K. Govil, On comparison of annuli containing all the zeros of a polynomial, Applicable Analysis and Discrete Mathematics, 11(1) (2017), 232-241.
A. Dalal and N. K. Govil, Annulus containing all the zeros of a polynomial, Applied Mathematics and Computation 249 (2014), 429-435.