Defective and Clustered Graph Colouring
Abstract
Consider the following two ways to colour the vertices of a graph where the requirement that adjacent vertices get distinct colours is relaxed. A colouring has "defect" if each monochromatic component has maximum degree at most . A colouring has "clustering" if each monochromatic component has at most vertices. This paper surveys research on these types of colourings, where the first priority is to minimise the number of colours, with small defect or small clustering as a secondary goal. List colouring variants are also considered. The following graph classes are studied: outerplanar graphs, planar graphs, graphs embeddable in surfaces, graphs with given maximum degree, graphs with given maximum average degree, graphs excluding a given subgraph, graphs with linear crossing number, linklessly or knotlessly embeddable graphs, graphs with given Colin de Verdi\`ere parameter, graphs with given circumference, graphs excluding a fixed graph as an immersion, graphs with given thickness, graphs with given stack- or queue-number, graphs excluding as a minor, graphs excluding as a minor, and graphs excluding an arbitrary graph as a minor. Several open problems are discussed.
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Cite
@article{arxiv.1803.07694,
title = {Defective and Clustered Graph Colouring},
author = {David R. Wood},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1803.07694},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
This is a preliminary version of a dynamic survey to be published in the Electronic Journal of Combinatorics