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In an undirected graph $G$, a conflict-free coloring with respect to open neighborhoods (denoted by CFON coloring) is an assignment of colors to the vertices such that every vertex has a uniquely colored vertex in its open neighborhood. The…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-14 Sriram Bhyravarapu , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram

A proper $k$-colouring of a graph $G$ is called $h$-conflict-free if every vertex $v$ has at least $\min\, \{h, {\rm deg}(v)\}$ colours appearing exactly once in its neighbourhood. Let $\chi_{\rm pcf}^h(G)$ denote the minimum $k$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-12 Quentin Chuet , Tianjiao Dai , Qiancheng Ouyang , François Pirot

An edge coloring of a graph $G$ is called conflict-free if, for every edge, its closed neighborhood contains a color that appears exactly once. The least number of colors required for such a coloring is the conflict-free chromatic index of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-28 Yuxin Jin , Yuping Gao

A {\it proper conflict-free $c$-coloring} of a graph is a proper $c$-coloring such that each non-isolated vertex has a color appearing exactly once on its neighborhood. This notion was formally introduced by Fabrici et al., who proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-13 Eun-Kyung Cho , Ilkyoo Choi , Hyemin Kwon , Boram Park

A conflict-free k-coloring of a graph assigns one of k different colors to some of the vertices such that, for every vertex v, there is a color that is assigned to exactly one vertex among v and v's neighbors. Such colorings have…

The conflict-free closed neighborhood (CFCN$^*$) chromatic number of a graph $G = (V,E)$ is the smallest positive integer $k$ for which there exists a coloring of a subset of vertices using $k$ colors such that, for every vertex in $V$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Shiwali Gupta , Rogers Mathew

An edge-colored graph $G$ is \emph{conflict-free connected} if any two of its vertices are connected by a path, which contains a color used on exactly one of its edges. The \emph{conflict-free connection number} of a connected graph $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Hong Chang , Trung Duy Doan , Zhong Huang , Stanislav Jendrol' , Xueliang Li , Ingo Schiermeyer

Proper conflict-free coloring is an intermediate notion between proper coloring of a graph and proper coloring of its square. It is a proper coloring such that for every non-isolated vertex, there exists a color appearing exactly once in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Chun-Hung Liu

A conflict-free open neighborhood coloring of a graph is an assignment of colors to the vertices such that for every vertex there is a color that appears exactly once in its open neighborhood. For a graph $G$, the smallest number of colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-11 Sriram Bhyravarapu , Shiwali Gupta , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , Rogers Mathew

An edge-colored graph $G$ is conflict-free connected if any two of its vertices are connected by a path, which contains a color used on exactly one of its edges. The conflict-free connection number of a connected graph $G$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Jing Wang , Meng Ji

We present fixed parameter tractable algorithms for the conflict-free coloring problem on graphs. Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, \emph{conflict-free coloring} of $G$ refers to coloring a subset of $V$ such that for every vertex $v$, there is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-05-07 Akanksha Agrawal , Pradeesha Ashok , Meghana M Reddy , Saket Saurabh , Dolly Yadav

A proper conflict-free coloring of a graph is a proper vertex coloring wherein each non-isolated vertex's open neighborhood contains at least one color appearing exactly once. For a non-negative integer $k$, a graph $G$ is said to be proper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-30 Yuting Wang , Xin Zhang

A path in an edge-colored graph is called \emph{conflict-free} if it contains at least one color used on exactly one of its edges. An edge-colored graph $G$ is \emph{conflict-free connected} if for any two distinct vertices of $G$, there is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Bo Deng , Wenjing Li , Xueliang Li , Yaping Mao , Haixing Zhao

Given a graph $G$ and a mapping $f:V(G) \to \mathbb{N}$, an $f$-list assignment of $G$ is a function that maps each $v \in V(G)$ to a set of at least $f(v)$ colors. For an $f$-list assignment $L$ of a graph $G$, a proper conflict-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Masaki Kashima , Riste Škrekovski , Rongxing Xu

The main goal of this paper is to formalize and explore a connection between chromatic properties of graphs with geometric representations and competitive analysis of on-line algorithms, which became apparent after the recent construction…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Tomasz Krawczyk , Bartosz Walczak

A C-coloring of a hypergraph ${\cal H}=(X,{\cal E})$ is a vertex coloring $\varphi: X\to {\mathbb{N}}$ such that each edge $E\in{\cal E}$ has at least two vertices with a common color. The related parameter $\overline{\chi}({\cal H})$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-10-31 Csilla Bujtás , Zsolt Tuza

A path in an(a) edge(vertex)-colored graph is called a conflict-free path if there exists a color used on only one of its edges(vertices). An(A) edge(vertex)-colored graph is called conflict-free (vertex-)connected if for each pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Xueliang Li , Xiaoyu Zhu

An incidence of a graph $G$ is a vertex-edge pair $(v,e)$ such that $v$ is incidence with $e$. A conflict-free incidence coloring of a graph is a coloring of the incidences in such a way that two incidences $(u,e)$ and $(v,f)$ get distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Mengke Qi , Xin Zhang

An edge colouring $c$ of a graph $G$ is called conflic-free if every non-isolated edge of $G$ has a uniquely coloured neighbour in its open edge neighbourhood. The least number of colours admitting such a colouring is denoted by $\chi'_{\rm…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-27 Mateusz Kamyczura , Jakub Przybyło

A coloring of a graph is an assignment of colors to its vertices such that adjacent vertices have different colors. Two colorings are equivalent if they induce the same partition of the vertex set into color classes. Let $\mathcal{A}(G)$ be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-11 Alain Hertz , Hadrien Mélot , Sébastien Bonte , Gauvain Devillez , Pierre Hauweele