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Given a graph $G$ and a non-decreasing sequence $S=(a_1,a_2,\ldots)$ of positive integers, the mapping $f:V(G) \rightarrow \{1,\ldots,k\}$ is an $S$-packing $k$-coloring of $G$ if for any distinct vertices $u,v\in V(G)$ with $f(u)=f(v)=i$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-22 Boštjan Brešar , Jasmina Ferme , Karolína Kamenická

For a non-decreasing sequence of integers $S=(s_1,s_2, \dots, s_k)$, an $S$-packing coloring of $G$ is a partition of $V(G)$ into $k$ subsets $V_1,V_2,\dots,V_k$ such that the distance between any two distinct vertices $x,y \in V_i$ is at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Ayman El Zein , Maidoun Mortada

For a sequence $S=(s_1, \ldots, s_k)$ of non-decreasing integers, a packing $S$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a partition of its vertex set $V(G)$ into $V_1, \ldots, V_k$ such that for every pair of distinct vertices $u,v \in V_i$, where $1…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Xujun Liu , Xin Zhang , Yanting Zhang

For a graph $G$ with vertex set $V(G)$ and a positive integer $i$, an $i$-packing in $G$ is a subset $X$ of $V(G)$ such that the distance between any two distinct vertices of $X$ is greater than $i$. The packing chromatic number of $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Aslıhan Gür , Didem Gözüpek , Hadi Alizadeh

For a non-decreasing sequence of positive integers $S = (s_1,s_2,\ldots)$, the {\em $S$-packing chromatic number} $\chi_S(G)$ of $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ such that the vertex set of $G$ can be partitioned into sets $X_i$, $i \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Přemysl Holub , Marko Jakovac , Sandi Klavžar

The packing chromatic number $\chi_{\rho}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ such that the vertex set of $G$ can be partitioned into sets $V_i$, $i\in \{1,\ldots,k\}$, where each $V_i$ is an $i$-packing. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Boštjan Brešar , Jasmina Ferme

An $i$-packing in a graph $G$ is a set of vertices at pairwise distance greater than $i$. For a nondecreasing sequence of integers $S=(s\_{1},s\_{2},\ldots)$, the $S$-packing chromatic number of a graph $G$ is the least integer $k$ such…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-05-29 Nicolas Gastineau , Hamamache Kheddouci , Olivier Togni

For a non-decreasing sequence $S=(s_1,s_2,\ldots)$ of positive integers, a partition of the vertex set of a graph $G$ into subsets $X_1,\ldots, X_\ell$, such that vertices in $X_i$ are pairwise at distance greater than $s_i$ for every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-30 Boštjan Brešar , Jasmina Ferme , Přemysl Holub , Marko Jakovac , Petra Melicharová

For a sequence of non-decreasing positive integers $S = (s_1, \ldots, s_k)$, a packing $S$-coloring is a partition of $V(G)$ into sets $V_1, \ldots, V_k$ such that for each $1\leq i \leq k$ the distance between any two distinct $x,y\in V_i$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-12 Runrun Liu , Xujun Liu , Martin Rolek , Gexin Yu

The packing chromatic number $\pcn(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ such that its set of vertices $V(G)$ can be partitioned into $k$ disjoint subsets $V\_1$, \ldots, $V\_k$, in such a way that every two distinct vertices in…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-06-25 Laïche Daouya , Isma Bouchemakh , Eric Sopena

A packing $k$-coloring for some integer $k$ of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a mapping $\varphi:V\to\{1,\ldots,k\}$ such that any two vertices $u, v$ of color $\varphi(u)=\varphi(v)$ are in distance at least $\varphi(u)+1$. This concept is motivated…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-05-23 Minki Kim , Bernard Lidický , Tomáš Masařík , Florian Pfender

For $1\leq s_1 \le s_2 \le \ldots \le s_k$ and a graph $G$, a packing $(s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_k)$-coloring of $G$ is a partition of $V(G)$ into sets $V_1, V_2, \ldots, V_k$ such that, for each $1\leq i \leq k$, the distance between any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Alexandr Kostochka , Xujun Liu

A 2-hued coloring of a graph $G$ (also known as conditional $(k, 2)$-coloring and dynamic coloring) is a coloring such that for every vertex $v\in V(G)$ of degree at least $2$, the neighbors of $v$ receive at least $2$ colors. The smallest…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-02-06 Arash Ahadi , Ali Dehghan

Let $S=(s_1,s_2,\ldots)$ be a non-decreasing sequence of positive integers. For a graph $G$ with vertex set $V(G)$, a labeling $\phi \colon V(G)\to \{1,\ldots,k\}$ is an $S$-packing $k$-coloring if, whenever two distinct vertices $u,v\in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-03 Gülnaz Boruzanlı Ekinci , Csilla Bujtás , Didem Gözüpek , Aslıhan Gür

An open packing in a graph $G$ is a set $S$ of vertices in $G$ such that no two vertices in $S$ have a common neighbor in $G$. The injective chromatic number $\chi_i(G)$ of $G$ is the smallest number of colors assigned to vertices of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-25 Boštjan Brešar , Babak Samadi , Ismael G. Yero

For a nondecreasing sequence of integers $S=(s_1, s_2, \ldots)$ an $S$-packing $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a mapping from $V(G)$ to $\{1, 2,\ldots,k\}$ such that vertices with color $i$ have pairwise distance greater than $s_i$. By…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Fei Deng , Zehui Shao , Aleksander Vesel

In this paper, we introduce a new concept in graph coloring, namely the \textit{packing total coloring}, which extends the idea of packing coloring to both the vertices and the edges of a given graph. More precisely, for a graph $G$, a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-11 Jasmina Ferme , Daša Mesarič Štesl

The packing chromatic number $\chi$ $\rho$ (G) of an undirected (resp. oriented) graph G is the smallest integer k such that its set of vertices V (G) can be partitioned into k disjoint subsets V 1,..., V k, in such a way that every two…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Daouya Laïche , Isma Bouchemakh , Eric Sopena

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

If $S=(s_1,s_2,\ldots)$ is a non-decreasing sequence of positive integers, then the $S$-packing $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a mapping $c: V(G)\rightarrow[k]$ such that if $c(u)=c(v)=i$ for $u\neq v\in V(G)$, then $d_G(u,v)>s_i$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Sandi Klavžar , Hui Lei , Xiaopan Lian , Yongtang Shi