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An edge-colored graph $G$ is rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph $G$, denoted $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-05 Arash Ahadi , Ali Dehghan

The rainbow connection number, $rc(G)$, of a connected graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors needed to color its edges so that every pair of vertices is connected by at least one path in which no two edges are colored the same. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Irene Y. Lo

An edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is rainbow connected if any two vertices of $G$ are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connection number $rc(G)$ of a connected graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-27 Xueliang Li , Sujuan Liu

An edge (vertex) coloured graph is rainbow-connected if there is a rainbow path between any two vertices, i.e. a path all of whose edges (internal vertices) carry distinct colours. Rainbow edge (vertex) connectivity of a graph $G$ is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-27 Nina Kamčev , Michael Krivelevich , Benny Sudakov

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is called a rainbow path if no two edges of it are colored the same. A nontrivial connected graph $G$ is rainbow connected if for any two vertices of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-01-05 Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun

A tree in an edge-colored graph is said to be rainbow if no two edges on the tree share the same color. An edge-coloring of $G$ is called 3-rainbow if for any three vertices in $G$, there exists a rainbow tree connecting them. The 3-rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-04-15 Qingqiong Cai , Xueliang Li , Yan Zhao

A path in an edge-colored graph is rainbow if no two edges of it are colored the same, and the graph is rainbow-connected if there is a rainbow path between each pair of its vertices. The minimum number of colors needed to rainbow-connect a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-12 L. Sunil Chandran , Davis Issac , Juho Lauri , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

An edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may have the same color, is {\it rainbow connected} if every two vertices of $G$ are connected by a path whose edge has distinct colors. A graph $G$ is {\it $k$-rainbow connected} if one can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun , Yan Zhao

Let $G$ be a nontrivial connected and vertex-colored graph. A vertex subset $X$ is called rainbow if any two vertices in $X$ have distinct colors. The graph $G$ is called \emph{rainbow vertex-disconnected} if for any two vertices $x$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Yindi Weng

An edge colored graph $G$ is rainbow edge connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connection of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-03 Andrzej Dudek , Alan Frieze , Charalampos Tsourakakis

A path in a vertex-colored graph $G$ is \emph{vertex rainbow} if all of its internal vertices have a distinct color. The graph $G$ is said to be \emph{rainbow vertex connected} if there is a vertex rainbow path between every pair of its…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-12-23 Juho Lauri

An edge-coloured path is \emph{rainbow} if its edges have distinct colours. An edge-coloured connected graph is said to be \emph{rainbow connected} if any two vertices are connected by a rainbow path, and \emph{strongly rainbow connected}…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-07-18 Hui Lei , Shasha Li , Henry Liu , Yongtang Shi

A path in a vertex-colored graph is a {\it vertex-proper path} if any two internal adjacent vertices differ in color. A vertex-colored graph is {\it proper vertex $k$-connected} if any two vertices of the graph are connected by $k$ disjoint…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-20 Hui Jiang , Xueliang Li , Yingying Zhang , Yan Zhao

An edge-colored graph G is rainbow connected if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connectivity of a connected graph G, denoted rc(G), is the smallest number of colors that are needed in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-02-17 Sourav Chakraborty , Eldar Fischer , Arie Matsliah , Raphael Yuster

A path in an edge-colored graph, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is a rainbow path if no two edges of it are colored the same. A nontrivial connected graph $G$ is rainbow connected if there is a rainbow path connecting any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-24 Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun

Let $G$ be a nontrivial connected and vertex-colored graph. A subset $X$ of the vertex set of $G$ is called rainbow if any two vertices in $X$ have distinct colors. The graph $G$ is called \emph{rainbow vertex-disconnected} if for any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Xueliang Li , Yindi Weng

Rainbow connection number rc(G) of a connected graph G is the minimum number of colours needed to colour the edges of G, so that every pair of vertices is connected by at least one path in which no two edges are coloured the same. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-02-21 L. Sunil Chandran , Anita Das , Deepak Rajendraprasad , Nithin M. Varma

A path in an edge-coloured graph is called \emph{rainbow path} if its edges receive pairwise distinct colours. An edge-coloured graph is said to be \emph{rainbow connected} if any two distinct vertices of the graph are connected by a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-05 Trung Duy Doan , Ingo Schiermeyer

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$ is rainbow if no two edges of it are colored the same. The graph $G$ is rainbow-connected if there is a rainbow path between every pair of vertices. If there is a rainbow shortest path between every pair…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Melissa Keranen , Juho Lauri

Let $G$ be a nontrivial connected graph with an edge-coloring $c: E(G)\rightarrow \{1,2,...,q\},$ $q \in \mathbb{N}$, where adjacent edges may be colored the same. A tree $T$ in $G$ is a $rainbow tree$ if no two edges of $T$ receive the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-07-04 Lily Chen , Xueliang Li , Kang Yang , Yan Zhao