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A \emph{majority coloring} of a digraph is a coloring of its vertices such that for each vertex $v$, at most half of the out-neighbors of $v$ has the same color as $v$. A digraph $D$ is \emph{majority $k$-choosable} if for any assignment of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Marcin Anholcer , Bartłomiej Bosek , Jarosław Grytczuk

In this article, we use a unified approach to prove several classes of planar graphs are DP-$3$-colorable, which extend the corresponding results on $3$-choosability.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Runrun Liu , Sarah Loeb , Yuxue Yin , Gexin Yu

A graph G is 5/2-critical if G has no circular 5/2-coloring (or equivalently, homomorphism to C_5), but every proper subgraph of G has one. We prove that every 5/2-critical graph on n>=4 vertices has at least (5n-2)/4 edges, and list all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-26 Zdenek Dvorak , Luke Postle

Given an edge-coloring of a simple graph, assign to every vertex $v$ a set $S_v$ comprised of the colors used on the edges incident to $v$. The $k$-intersection chromatic index of a graph is the minimum $t$ such that the edge set can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-11 M. Santana

We show that there exists a constant $c > 0$ such that if $G$ is a planar graph with 5-correspondence assignment $(L,M)$, then $G$ has at least $2^{c\cdot v(G)}$ distinct $(L,M)$-colourings. This confirms a conjecture of Langhede and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-02 Luke Postle , Evelyne Smith-Roberge

Let G be a plane graph with outer cycle C, let u,v be vertices of C and let (L(x):x in V(G)) be a family of sets such that |L(u)|=|L(v)|=2, L(x) has at least three elements for every vertex x of C-{u,v} and L(x) has at least five elements…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-28 Luke Postle , Robin Thomas

We give an upper bound on the list chromatic number of a 2-colorable hypergraph which generalizes the bound of Schauz on $k$-partite $k$-uniform hypergraphs. It makes sense for sparse hypergraphs: in particular we show that a $k$-uniform…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-05 Danila Cherkashin , Alexey Gordeev

We prove that for any planar convex body C there is a positive integer m with the property that any finite point set P in the plane can be three-colored such that there is no translate of C containing at least m points of P, all of the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-21 Gábor Damásdi , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

For a graph $G$ with a list assignment $L$ and two $L$-colorings $\alpha$ and $\beta$, an $L$-recoloring sequence from $\alpha$ to $\beta$ is a sequence of proper $L$-colorings where consecutive colorings differ at exactly one vertex. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-10-21 Chenran Pan , Weifan Wang , Runrun Liu

We prove that 3-Coloring remains NP-hard on 4- and 5-regular planar Hamiltonian graphs, strengthening the results of Dailey [Disc. Math.'80] and Fleischner and Sabidussi [J. Graph. Theor.'02]. Moreover, we prove that 3-Coloring remains…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-04-20 Dario Cavallaro , Till Fluschnik

A multigraph in which adjacent vertices have different degrees is called locally irregular. The locally irregular edge coloring is an edge coloring of a multigraph $G$ in which every color induces a locally irregular submultigraph of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Igor Grzelec , Alfréd Onderko , Mariusz Woźniak

A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn on a plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. In this paper, we first give a useful structural theorem for 1-planar graphs, and then apply it to the list edge and list total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Xin Zhang , Bei Niu , Jiguo Yu

A graph $G$ is $(d_1,\ldots,d_k)$-colorable if its vertex set can be partitioned into $k$ sets $V_1,\ldots,V_k$, such that for each $i\in\{1, \ldots, k\}$, the subgraph of $G$ induced by $V_i$ has maximum degree at most $d_i$. The Four…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-03-18 Ilkyoo Choi , Louis Esperet

An edge-colouring of a graph is distinguishing, if the only automorphism which preserves the colouring is the identity. It has been conjectured that all but finitely many connected, finite, regular graphs admit a distinguishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Florian Lehner , Monika Pilśniak , Marcin Stawiski

In this paper we have shown without assuming the four color theorem of planar graphs that every (bridgeless) cubic planar graph has a three-edge-coloring. This is an old-conjecture due to Tait in the squeal of efforts in settling the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 I. Cahit

A proper vertex coloring of a graph $G$ is $r$-dynamic if for each $v\in V(G)$, at least $\min\{r,d(v)\}$ colors appear in $N_G(v)$. In this paper we investigate $r$-dynamic versions of coloring, list coloring, and paintability. We prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-13 Sarah Loeb , Thomas Mahoney , Benjamin Reiniger , Jennifer Wise

In 1994, Thomassen proved that every planar graph is 5-list-colorable. In 1995, Thomassen proved that every planar graph of girth at least five is 3-list-colorable. His proofs naturally lead to quadratic-time algorithms to find such…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-07 Luke Postle

It is known that every loopless cubic graph is 4-edge choosable. We prove the following strengthened result. Let G be a planar cubic graph having b cut-edges. There exists a set F of at most 5b/2 edges of G with the following property. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Luis Goddyn , Andrea Spencer

We prove that planar graphs of maximum degree 3 and of girth at least 7 are 3-edge-colorable, extending the previous result for girth at least 8 by Kronk, Radlowski, and Franen from 1974.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-25 Sebastien Bonduelle , František Kardoš

Thomassen famously proved that every planar graph is 5-choosable. We explore variants of this result, focusing on finding disjoint correspondence colorings, in the more general class of $K_5$-minor-free graphs. Correspondence colorings…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Wouter Cames van Batenburg , Daniel W. Cranston , František Kardoš