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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 $G$, denoted $rc(G)$, is the minimum number of colors that are used to make $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-15 Lily Chen , Xueliang Li , Huishu Lian

In a graph $G$ with a given edge colouring, a rainbow path is a path all of whose edges have distinct colours. The minimum number of colours required to colour the edges of $G$ so that every pair of vertices is joined by at least one…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-10 Annika Heckel , Oliver Riordan

A path in a vertex-colored graph is called \emph{vertex-rainbow} if its internal vertices have pairwise distinct colors. A graph $G$ is \emph{rainbow vertex-connected} if for any two distinct vertices of $G$, there is a vertex-rainbow path…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-03 Wenjing Li , Xueliang Li , Jingshu Zhang

A path in an edge colored graph is said to be a rainbow path if no two edges on the path have the same color. An edge colored graph is (strongly) rainbow connected if there exists a (geodesic) rainbow path between every pair of vertices.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-10-10 Prabhanjan Ananth , Meghana Nasre , Kanthi K Sarpatwar

An edge-cut $R$ of an edge-colored connected graph is called a rainbow-cut if no two edges in the edge-cut are colored the same. An edge-colored graph is rainbow disconnected if for any two distinct vertices $u$ and $v$ of the graph, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-31 Xuqing Bai , Zhong Huang , Xueliang Li

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is a rainbow path if every two edges of it receive distinct colors. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $rc(G)$, is the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-07-23 Qingqiong Cai , Xueliang Li , Yan Zhao

An edge-colored multigraph $G$ is rainbow connected if every pair of vertices is joined by at least one rainbow path, i.e., a path where no two edges are of the same color. In the context of multilayered networks we introduce the notion of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-04 Josep Díaz , Öznur Yaşar Diner , Maria Serna , Oriol Serra

An edge-coloured path is \emph{rainbow} if all the edges have distinct colours. For a connected graph $G$, the \emph{rainbow connection number} $rc(G)$ is the minimum number of colours in an edge-colouring of $G$ such that, any two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-21 Lin Chen , Xueliang Li , Henry Liu , Jinfeng Liu

A graph has a locating rainbow coloring if every pair of its vertices can be connected by a path passing through internal vertices with distinct colors and every vertex generates a unique rainbow code. The minimum number of colors needed…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Ariestha Widyastuty Bustan , A. N. M Salman , Pritta Etriana Putri

Let $G$ be a nontrivial connected, edge-colored graph. An edge-cut $S$ of $G$ is called a rainbow cut if no two edges in $S$ are colored with a same color. An edge-coloring of $G$ is a rainbow disconnection coloring if for every two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Zhong Huang , Xueliang Li

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$ is called a rainbow path if no two edges of the path are colored the same. The minimum number of colors required to color the edges of $G$ such that every pair of vertices are connected by at least $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Xiaolin Chen , Xueliang Li , Huishu Lian

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

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 vertex-colored graph $G$ is {\it rainbow vertex-connected} if any pair of vertices in $G$ are connected by a path whose internal vertices have distinct colors, which was introduced by Krivelevich and Yuster. The {\it rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-11 Lily Chen , Xueliang Li , Huishu Lian

An edge-colored graph $G$ is $k$-color connected if, between each pair of vertices, there exists a path using at least $k$ different colors. The $k$-color connection number of $G$, denoted by $cc_{k}(G)$, is the minimum number of colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-29 Hong Chang , Zhong Huang , Xueliang Li

Let $G$ be a nontrivial edge-colored connected graph. An edge-cut $R$ of $G$ is called a rainbow cut if no two edges of it are colored the same. An edge-colored graph $G$ is rainbow disconnected if for every two vertices $u$ and $v$, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-24 Xuqing Bai , Renying Chang , Xueliang Li

An edge-coloured path is rainbow if its edges have distinct colours. For a connected graph $G$, the rainbow connection number (resp. strong rainbow connection number) of $G$ is the minimum number of colours required to colour the edges of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-06 Hui Lei , Henry Liu , Colton Magnant , Yongtang Shi

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 $G$ are colored the same. For a $\kappa$-connected graph $G$ and an integer $k$ with $1\leq k\leq \kappa$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-06-23 Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun

A path in an edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may have the same color, is called a rainbow path if no two edges of the path are colored the same. The rainbow connection number $rc(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum integer $i$ for which…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-06 Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Sujuan Liu

A total-colored graph is a graph $G$ such that both all edges and all vertices of $G$ are colored. A path in a total-colored graph $G$ is a total rainbow path if its edges and internal vertices have distinct colors. A total-colored graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-09 Hui Jiang , Xueliang Li , Yingying Zhang