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Compelling Colorings: A generalization of the dominator chromatic number

Combinatorics 2021-05-11 v1

Abstract

We define a PP-compelling coloring as a proper coloring of the vertices of a graph such that every subset consisting of one vertex of each color has property PP. The PP-compelling chromatic number is the minimum number of colors in such a coloring. We show that this notion generalizes the dominator and total dominator chromatic numbers, and provide some general bounds and algorithmic results. We also investigate the specific cases where PP is that the subset contains at least one edge or that the subset is connected.

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@article{arxiv.2105.03694,
  title  = {Compelling Colorings: A generalization of the dominator chromatic number},
  author = {Anna Bachstein and Wayne Goddard and Michael A. Henning and John Xue},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2105.03694},
  year   = {2021}
}