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Fix a color-critical graph $H$ with $\chi(H)=r+1\geq 3$. Simonovits' chromatic critical edge theorem and Nikiforov's spectral chromatic critical edge theorem imply that $T_{n,r}$ is the extremal graph with the maximum size and the maximum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-19 Longfei Fang , Huiqiu Lin

For integers $k, r > 0$, a conditional $(k,r)$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper $k$-coloring of the vertices of $G$ such that every vertex $v$ of degree $d(v)$ in $G$ is adjacent to at least $\min\{r, d(v)\}$ differently colored…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-06-20 P. Venkata Subba Reddy , K. Viswanathan Iyer

Let $G = (V, E)$ be an $n$-vertex edge-colored graph. In 2013, H. Li proved that if every vertex $v \in V$ is incident to at least $(n+1)/2$ distinctly colored edges, then $G$ admits a rainbow triangle. We prove that the same hypothesis…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-24 Andrzej Czygrinow , Theodore Molla , Brendan Nagle , Roy Oursler

Let G(n,d) be the random d-regular graph on n vertices. For any integer k exceeding a certain constant k_0 we identify a number d_{k-col} such that G(n,d) is k-colorable w.h.p. if d<d_{k-col} and non-k-colorable w.h.p. if d>d_{k-col}.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-08-21 Amin Coja-Oghlan , Charilaos Efthymiou , Samuel Hetterich

A signed graph is a pair $(G, \sigma)$, where $G$ is a graph and $\sigma: E(G) \to \{+, -\}$ is a signature which assigns to each edge of $G$ a sign. Various notions of coloring of signed graphs have been studied. In this paper, we extend…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-10-16 Reza Naserasr , Zhouningxin Wang , Xuding Zhu

A locally irregular multigraph is a multigraph whose adjacent vertices have distinct degrees. The locally irregular edge coloring is an edge coloring of a multigraph $G$ such that every color induces a locally irregular submultigraph of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-19 Igor Grzelec , Mariusz Woźniak

A hypergraph is said to be properly 2-colorable if there exists a 2-coloring of its vertices such that no hyperedge is monochromatic. On the other hand, a hypergraph is called non-2-colorable if there exists at least one monochromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Sachin Aglave , V. A. Amarnath , Saswata Shannigrahi , Shwetank Singh

A coloring of the edges of a graph $G$ in which every $K_{1,2}$ is totally multicolored is known as a proper coloring and a coloring of the edges of $G$ in which every $K_{1,2}$ and every $K_{2,2}$ is totally multicolored is called a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Ryan R. Martin , Miklós Ruszinkó , Gábor N. Sárközy

In their 1997 paper titled ``Fruit Salad", Gy\'{a}rf\'{a}s posed the following conjecture: there exists a constant $k$ such that if each path of a graph spans a $3$-colourable subgraph, then the graph is $k$-colourable. It is noted that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-25 Ben Cameron , Alexander Clow

We prove that for every $d\in \mathbb{N}$ and a graph class of bounded expansion $\mathscr{C}$, there exists some $c\in \mathbb{N}$ so that every graph from $\mathscr{C}$ admits a proper coloring with at most $c$ colors satisfying the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-22 Michał Pilipczuk

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a multigraph of maximum degree $\Delta$. The edges of $G$ can be colored with at most $\frac{3}{2}\Delta$ colors by Shannon's theorem. We study lower bounds on the size of subgraphs of $G$ that can be colored with $\Delta$…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-09-25 Michał Farnik , Łukasz Kowalik , Arkadiusz Socała

A graph $G$ is \emph{uniquely k-colorable} if the chromatic number of $G$ is $k$ and $G$ has only one $k$-coloring up to permutation of the colors. For a plane graph $G$, two faces $f_1$ and $f_2$ of $G$ are \emph{adjacent $(i,j)$-faces} if…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-09-11 Zepeng Li , Naoki Matsumoto , Enqiang Zhu , Jin Xu , Tommy Jensen

A proper total colouring of a graph $G$ is called harmonious if it has the further property that when replacing each unordered pair of incident vertices and edges with their colours, then no pair of colours appears twice. The smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-19 M. Abreu , J. B. Gauci , D. Mattiolo , G. Mazzuoccolo , F. Romaniello , C. Rubio-Montiel , T. Traetta

We consider vertex coloring of an acyclic digraph $\Gdag$ in such a way that two vertices which have a common ancestor in $\Gdag$ receive distinct colors. Such colorings arise in a natural way when bounding space for various genetic data…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-12 Geir Agnarsson , Agust Egilsson , Magnus Mar Halldorsson

Let $G$ be a plane graph with outer cycle $C$ and let $(L(v):v\in V(G))$ be a family of sets such that $|L(v)|\ge 5$ for every $v\in V(G)$. By an $L$-coloring of a subgraph $J$ of $G$ we mean a (proper) coloring $\phi$ of $J$ such that…

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

A strong edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is an edge-coloring such that no two edges of distance at most two receive the same color. The strong chromatic index $\chi'_s(G)$ is the minimum number of colors in a strong edge-coloring of $G$. P.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-06 Chuanyun Zang

Dvo\v{r}\'ak \emph{et al.} introduced a variant of the Randi\'c index of a graph $G$, denoted by $R'(G)$, where $R'(G)=\sum_{uv\in E(G)}\frac 1 {\max\{d(u), d(v)\}}$, and $d(u)$ denotes the degree of a vertex $u$ in $G$. The coloring number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-11-06 Baoyindureng Wu , Clive Elphick

A graph $H$ is common if the limit as $n\to\infty$ of the minimum density of monochromatic labelled copies of $H$ in an edge colouring of $K_n$ with red and blue is attained by a sequence of quasirandom colourings. We apply an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-07-11 Natalie Behague , Natasha Morrison , Jonathan A. Noel

In 1967 Harary, Hedetniemi, and Prins showed that every graph $G$ admits a complete $t$-coloring for every $t$ with $\chi(G) \le t \le \psi(G)$, where $\chi(G)$ denotes the chromatic number of $G$ and $\psi(G)$ denotes the achromatic number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-04 Nastaran Haghparast , Morteza Hasanvand , Yumiko Ohno

We introduce a new tool useful for greedy coloring, which we call the forb-flex method, and apply it to odd coloring and proper conflict-free coloring of planar graphs. The odd chromatic number, denoted $\chi_{\mathsf{o}}(G)$, is the…