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Given a multi-hypergraph $G$ that is edge-colored into color classes $E_1, \ldots, E_n$, a full rainbow matching is a matching of $G$ that contains exactly one edge from each color class $E_i$. One way to guarantee the existence of a full…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-19 Ronen Wdowinski

An edge-colored graph is a graph in which each edge is assigned a color. Such a graph is called strongly edge-colored if each color class forms an induced matching, and called rainbow if all edges receive pairwise distinct colors. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Laihao Ding , Xiaolan Hu , Suyun Jiang

An odd $k$-edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is a (not necessarily proper) edge-coloring with at most $k$ colors such that each non-empty color class induces a graph in which every vertex is of odd degree; similarly, if more than one color per…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-26 Xiao-Chuan Liu , Mirko Petruševski , Xu Yang

We consider edge colorings of a graph in such a way that each two different triangles have distinct colorings. It is an extension of the well-known idea of distinguishing all maximal stars in a graph. It was introduced in literature in 1985…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-30 Monika Pilsniak , Mariusz Wozniak

Given a proper edge-coloring of a loopless multigraph, the palette of a vertex is defined as the set of colors of the edges which are incident with it. The palette index of a multigraph is defined as the minimum number of distinct palettes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-01-08 Maddalena Avesani , Arrigo Bonisoli , Giuseppe Mazzuoccolo

We prove that if $H$ is a subgraph of a complete multipartite graph $G$, then $H$ contains a connected component $H'$ satisfying $|E(H')||E(G)|\geq |E(H)|^2$. We use this to prove that every three-coloring of the edges of a complete graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Sammy Luo

A proper vertex colouring of a graph is \emph{nested} if the vertices of each of its colour classes can be ordered by inclusion of their open neighbourhoods. Through a relation to partially ordered sets, we show that the nested chromatic…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-04 David Cook

List colouring is an influential and classic topic in graph theory. We initiate the study of a natural strengthening of this problem, where instead of one list-colouring, we seek many in parallel. Our explorations have uncovered a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-03 Stijn Cambie , Wouter Cames van Batenburg , Ewan Davies , Ross J. Kang

We call a (not necessarily properly) edge-colored graph edge-color-avoiding connected if after the removal of edges of any single color, the graph remains connected. For vertex-colored graphs, similar definitions of color-avoiding…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-29 József Pintér , Kitti Varga

We propose a new approach for defining and searching clusters in graphs that represent real technological or transaction networks. In contrast to the standard way of finding dense parts of a graph, we concentrate on the structure of edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-16 András London , Ryan R. Martin , András Pluhár

An edge colouring of a graph is said to be an $r$-local colouring if the edges incident to any vertex are coloured with at most $r$ colours. Generalising a result of Bessy and Thomass\'e, we prove that the vertex set of any $2$-locally…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-05-12 David Conlon , Maya Stein

A coloring of a complete bipartite graph is shuffle-preserved if it is the case that assigning a color $c$ to edges $(u, v)$ and $(u', v')$ enforces the same color assignment for edges $(u, v')$ and $(u',v)$. (In words, the induced subgraph…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 Ming-Yang Chen , Hsueh-I. Lu , Hsu-Chun Yen

Given graphs $G$ and $H$, we consider the problem of decomposing a properly edge-colored graph $G$ into few parts consisting of rainbow copies of $H$ and single edges. We establish a close relation to the previously studied problem of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-05 Lale Özkahya , Yury Person

Graph coloring is fundamental to distributed computing. We give the first sub-logarithmic distributed algorithm for coloring cluster graphs. These graphs are obtained from the underlying communication network by contracting nodes and edges,…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-06-17 Maxime Flin , Magnus M. Halldorsson , Alexandre Nolin

A path in an edge-colored graph is called a \emph{monochromatic path} if all the edges on the path are colored the same. An edge-coloring of $G$ is a \emph{monochromatic connection coloring} (MC-coloring, for short) if there is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-30 Qingqiong Cai , Xueliang Li , Di Wu

We study a graph coloring problem motivated by a fun Sudoku-style puzzle. Given a bipartition of the edges of a graph into {\em near} and {\em far} sets and an integer threshold $t$, a {\em threshold-coloring} of the graph is an assignment…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-03-07 Md. Jawaherul Alam , Stephen G. Kobourov , Sergey Pupyrev , Jakson Toeniskoetter

Menger's Edge Theorem asserts that there exist $k$ pairwise edge-disjoint paths between two vertices in an undirected graph if and only if a deletion of any $k-1$ or less edges does not disconnect these two vertices. Alternatively, there…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-05 Avraham Goldstein

Given a large social or information network, how can we partition the vertices into sets (i.e., colors) such that no two vertices linked by an edge are in the same set while minimizing the number of sets used. Despite the obvious practical…

Social and Information Networks · Computer Science 2014-08-27 Ryan A. Rossi , Nesreen K. Ahmed

A graph coloring has bounded clustering if each monochromatic component has bounded size. This paper studies such a coloring, where the number of colors depends on an excluded complete bipartite subgraph. This is a much weaker assumption…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-09-29 Chun-Hung Liu , David R. Wood

We prove several results about three families of graphs. For queen graphs, defined from the usual moves of a chess queen, we find the edge-chromatic number in almost all cases. In the unproved case, we have a conjecture supported by a vast…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-28 Witold Jarnicki , Wendy Myrvold , Peter Saltzman , Stan Wagon