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

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-14 Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun

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

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

We consider the problem of computing the strong rainbow connection number $src(G)$ for cactus graphs $G$ in which all cycles have odd length. We present a formula to calculate $src(G)$ for such odd cacti which can be evaluated in linear…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-30 Logan A. Smith , David T. Mildebrath , Illya V. Hicks

Given a family $\mathcal G$ of graphs on a common vertex set $X$, we say that $\mathcal G$ is rainbow connected if for every vertex pair $u,v \in X$, there exists a path from $u$ to $v$ that uses at most one edge from each graph in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-15 Peter Bradshaw , Bojan Mohar

A subgraph of an edge-colored graph is called \emph{rainbow} if all of its edges have distinct colors. There has been much research on the topic of finding a large rainbow matching in a properly edge-colored graph, where a proper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Po-Shen Loh

Given an edge-colored graph, the Maximum Rainbow Matching problem asks for a maximum-cardinality matching of the graph that contains at most one edge from each color. We provide the following complexity dichotomy for this problem based on…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-24 Felix Hommelsheim , Pia Jehmlich , Moritz Mühlenthaler

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 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 Outerplanar Diameter Improvement problem asks, given a graph $G$ and an integer $D$, whether it is possible to add edges to $G$ in a way that the resulting graph is outerplanar and has diameter at most $D$. We provide a dynamic…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-05-26 Nathann Cohen , Daniel Gonçalves , Eun Jung Kim , Christophe Paul , Ignasi Sau , Dimitrios M. Thilikos , Mathias Weller

The oriented diameter of a bridgeless graph $G$ is $\min\{diam(H)\ | H\ is\ an orientation\ of\ G\}$. A path in an edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may have the same color, is called rainbow if no two edges of the path are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-12-06 Xiaolong Huang , Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun

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 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

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

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

An edge-colouring is {\em strong} if every colour class is an induced matching. In this work we give a formulae that determines either the optimal or the optimal plus one strong chromatic index of bipartite outerplanar graphs. Further, we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-12-20 Valentin Borozan , Leandro Montero , Narayanan Narayanan

A rainbow matching in an edge-colored graph is a matching whose edges have distinct colors. We address the complexity issue of the following problem, \mrbm: Given an edge-colored graph $G$, how large is the largest rainbow matching in $G$?…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-12-30 Van Bang Le , Florian Pfender

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

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

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. For any two vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$, a rainbow $u-v$ geodesic in $G$ is a rainbow $u-v$ path of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-11-01 Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun