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A graceful $l$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper vertex coloring with $l$ colors which induces a proper edge coloring with at most $l-1$ colors, where the color for an edge $ab$ is the absolute difference between the colors assigned to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Laavanya D. , Devi Yamini S.

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

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-07 Wenjing Li , Xueliang Li , Jingshu Zhang

A proper $s$-coloring of an $n$-vertex graph is \emph{equitable} if every color class has size $\lfloor{n/s}\rfloor$ or $\lceil{n/s}\rceil$. A necessary condition to have an equitable $s$-coloring is that every vertex $v$ appears in an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Daniel W. Cranston , Reem Mahmoud

An adjacent vertex distinguishing coloring of a graph G is a proper edge coloring of G such that any pair of adjacent vertices are incident with distinct sets of colors. The minimum number of colors needed for an adjacent vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-14 Lianzhu Zhang , Weifan Wang , Ko-Wei Lih

The strong chromatic number, $\chi_S(G)$, of an $n$-vertex graph $G$ is the smallest number $k$ such that after adding $k\lceil n/k\rceil-n$ isolated vertices to $G$ and considering {\bf any} partition of the vertices of the resulting graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-05-25 Maria Axenovich , Ryan R. Martin

A graph is k-total colourable if there is an assignment of k different colours to the vertices and edges of the graph such that no two adjacent nor incident elements receive the same colour. The total chromatic number of some direct product…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-06 Jeannette Janssen , Kyle MacKeigan

Let $\chi'_k(G)$ denote the minimum number of colors needed to color the edges of a graph $G$ in a way that the subgraph spanned by the edges of each color has all degrees congruent to $1 \pmod k$. Scott [{\em Discrete Math. 175}, 1-3…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-17 Fábio Botler , Lucas Colucci , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa

We say that a graph $G$ is chromatic-choosable when its list chromatic number $\chi_{\ell}(G)$ is equal to its chromatic number $\chi(G)$. Chromatic-choosability is a well-studied topic, and in fact, some of the most famous results and…

In 2003 Kostochka, Pelsmajer, and West introduced a list analogue of equitable coloring called equitable choosability. A $k$-assignment, $L$, for a graph $G$ assigns a list, $L(v)$, of $k$ available colors to each $v \in V(G)$, and an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-06 Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Max Marsh , Tim Wagstrom

Given a graph $G$, a mutual-visibility coloring of $G$ is introduced as follows. We color two vertices $x,y\in V(G)$ with a same color, if there is a shortest $x,y$-path whose internal vertices have different colors than $x,y$. The smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-08-07 Sandi Klavžar , Dorota Kuziak , Juan Carlos Valenzuela Tripodoro , Ismael G. Yero

A proper vertex $k$-coloring of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is an assignment $c:V\to \{1,2,\ldots,k\}$ of colors to the vertices of the graph such that no two adjacent vertices are associated with the same color. The square $G^2$ of a graph $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-02-22 Hervé Hocquard , Seog-Jin Kim , Théo Pierron

A coloring is distinguishing (or symmetry breaking) if no non-identity automorphism preserves it. The distinguishing threshold of a graph $G$, denoted by $\theta(G)$, is the minimum number of colors $k$ so that every $k$-coloring of $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Saeid Alikhani , Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz

A vertex coloring is called distinguishing if the identity is the only automorphism that can preserve it. The distinguishing threshold $\theta(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors $k$ required that any arbitrary $k$-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Saeid Alikhani , Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz

For any bipartite graph $H$, we determine a minimum degree threshold for a balanced bipartite graph $G$ to contain a perfect $H$-tiling. We show that this threshold is best possible up to a constant depending only on $H$. Additionally, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-10-20 Albert Bush , Yi Zhao

We study a generalization of the classical Hajnal-Szemer\'edi theorem to vertex-weighted graphs. Given a graph with nonnegative vertex weights, a coloring is called $\alpha$-approximately equitable up to one vertex ($\alpha$-EQ1) if, for…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-12 Siddharth Barman , Vignesh Viswanathan

An equitable $k$-coloring of a graph is a proper $k$-coloring where the sizes of any two different color classes differ by at most one. In 1973, Meyer conjectured that every connected graph $G$ has an equitable $k$-coloring for some $k\leq…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Yangyang Cheng , Zhenyu Li , Wanting Sun , Guanghui Wang

A graph on $n$ vertices is equitably $k$-colorable if it is $k$-colorable and every color is used either $\left\lfloor n/k \right\rfloor$ or $\left\lceil n/k \right\rceil$ times. Such a problem appears to be considerably harder than vertex…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Guilherme de C. M. Gomes , Carlos V. G. C. Lima , Vinícius F. dos Santos

The quantum chromatic number, $\chi_q(G)$, of a graph $G$ was originally defined as the minimal number of colors necessary in a quantum protocol in which two provers that cannot communicate with each other but share an entangled state can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Pawel Wocjan , Clive Elphick

In this paper, we consider some general properties of block graphs as well as the equitable coloring problem in this class of graphs. In the first part we establish the relation between two structural parameters for general block graphs. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-02-09 Hanna Furmańczyk , Vahan Mkrtchyan

A uniquely $k$-colourable graph is a graph with exactly one partition of the vertex set into at most $k$ colour classes. Here, we investigate some constructions of uniquely $k$-colourable graphs and give a construction of $K_k$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-23 Samuel Mohr