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DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) of graphs is a generalization of list coloring that has been widely studied since its introduction by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in $2015$. Intuitively, DP-coloring generalizes list coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-11 Anton Bernshteyn , Daniel Dominik , Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock

In extremal combinatorics, it is common to focus on structures that are minimal with respect to a certain property. In particular, critical and list-critical graphs occupy a prominent place in graph coloring theory. Stiebitz, Tuza, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-27 Anton Bernshteyn , Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Gunjan Sharma

DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring introduced by Dvo\u{r}\'{a}k and Postle (2017). Recently, Huang et al. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2019.124562] showed that planar graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Jingran Qi , Danjun Huang , Weifan Wang , Stephen Finbow

The DP-coloring is a generalization of the list coloring, introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle. Let $\mathcal{H}=(L,H)$ be a cover of a graph $G$ and $P_{DP}(G,\mathcal{H})$ be the number of $\mathcal{H}$-colorings of $G$. The DP color…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-26 Ziqing Li , Yan Yang

The dichromatic number $\vec{\chi}(D)$ of a digraph $D$ is the least integer $k$ for which $D$ has a coloring with $k$ colors such that there is no monochromatic directed cycle in $D$. The digraphs considered here are finite and may have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta , Michael Stiebitz

A generalization of list-coloring, now known as DP-coloring, was recently introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle. Essentially, DP-coloring assigns an arbitrary matching between lists of colors at adjacent vertices, as opposed to only…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Runrun Liu , Sarah Loeb , Martin Rolek , Yuxue Yin , Gexin Yu

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring that has been widely studied in recent years after its introduction by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2015. As the analogue of the chromatic polynomial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-23 Charlie Halberg , Hemanshu Kaul , Andrew Liu , Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Paul Shin , Seth Thomason

Criticality is a fundamental notion in graph theory that has been studied continually since its introduction in the early 50s by Dirac. A graph is called $k$-vertex-critical ($k$-edge-critical) if it is $k$-chromatic but removing any vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-13 Ema Skottova , Raphael Steiner

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring that has been widely studied in recent years after its introduction by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2015. The chromatic polynomial of a graph is an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-11 Manh Vu Bui , Hemanshu Kaul , Michael Maxfield , Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Paul Shin , Seth Thomason

Defective coloring (also known as relaxed or improper coloring) is a generalization of proper coloring defined as follows: for $d \in \mathbb{N}$, a coloring of a graph is $d$-defective if every vertex is colored the same as at most $d$ of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-26 James Anderson

By a graph we mean a finite undirected graph having multiple edges but no loops. Given a graph property $\mathcal{P}$, a $\mathcal{P}$-coloring of a graph $G$ with color set $C$ is a mapping $\f:V(G)\to C$ such that for each color $c\in C$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Alexandr V. Kostochka , Thomas Schweser , Michael Stiebitz

The dichromatic number $\vec{\chi}(D)$ of a digraph $D$ is the minimum number of colours needed to colour the vertices of a digraph such that each colour class induces an acyclic subdigraph. A digraph $D$ is $k$-dicritical if $\vec{\chi}(D)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-30 Frédéric Havet , Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta , Clément Rambaud

DP-coloring, also known as correspondence coloring, is introduced by Dvo{\v{r}}{\'{a}}k and Postle. It is a generalization of list coloring. In this paper, we show that every connected toroidal graph without triangles adjacent to $5$-cycles…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Tao Wang

\qquad A \emph{coloring} of a digraph $D=(V,E)$ is a coloring of its vertices following the rule: Let $uv$ be an arc in $D$. If the tail $u$ is colored first, then the head $v$ should receive a color different from that of $u$. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-04-02 E. Sampathkumar

We introduce a variant of the vertex-distinguishing edge coloring problem, where each edge is assigned a subset of colors. The label of a vertex is the union of the sets of colors on edges incident to it. In this paper we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Nicolas Bousquet , Antoine Dailly , Eric Duchene , Hamamache Kheddouci , Aline Parreau

In 1980, Albertson and Berman introduced partial coloring. In 2000, Albertson, Grossman, and Haas introduced partial list coloring. Here, we initiate the study of partial coloring for an insightful generalization of list coloring introduced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Michael J. Pelsmajer

We generalize a framework of list colouring results to correspondence colouring. Correspondence colouring is a generalization of list colouring wherein we localize the meaning of the colours available to each vertex. As pointed out by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-31 Luke Postle , Evelyne Smith-Roberge

DP-coloring was introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle as a generalization of list coloring. It was originally used to solve a longstanding conjecture by Borodin, stating that every planar graph without cycles of lengths 4 to 8 is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-13 Rui Li , Tao Wang

In this paper we study the oriented vertex and arc coloring problem on edge series-parallel digraphs (esp-digraphs) which are related to the well known series-parallel graphs. Series-parallel graphs are graphs with two distinguished…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-02-22 Frank Gurski , Dominique Komander , Marvin Lindemann

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring that was introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2015. The chromatic polynomial of a graph is an important notion in algebraic combinatorics that was…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-09 Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Gabriel Sharbel