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In Defective Coloring we are given a graph $G$ and two integers $\chi_d$, $\Delta^*$ and are asked if we can $\chi_d$-color $G$ so that the maximum degree induced by any color class is at most $\Delta^*$. We show that this natural…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Rémy Belmonte , Michael Lampis , Valia Mitsou

For nonnegative integers $k, d_1, \ldots, d_k$, a graph is $(d_1, \ldots, d_k)$-colorable if its vertex set can be partitioned into $k$ parts so that the $i$th part induces a graph with maximum degree at most $d_i$ for all $i\in\{1, \ldots,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-08-15 Ilkyoo Choi , Chun-Hung Liu , Sang-il Oum

The defective chromatic number of a graph class is the infimum $k$ such that there exists an integer $d$ such that every graph in this class can be partitioned into at most $k$ induced subgraphs with maximum degree at most $d$. Finding the…

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

In this work, we continue the study of vertex colorings of graphs, in which adjacent vertices are allowed to be of the same color as long as each monochromatic connected component is of relatively small cardinality. We focus on colorings…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-12-03 Michael A. Bekos , Carla Binucci , Michael Kaufmann , Chrysanthi Raftopoulou , Antonios Symvonis , Alessandra Tappini

Consider a coloring of a graph such that each vertex is assigned a fraction of each color, with the total amount of colors at each vertex summing to $1$. We define the fractional defect of a vertex $v$ to be the sum of the overlaps with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-11 Wayne Goddard , Honghai Xu

A defective $k$-coloring is a coloring on the vertices of a graph using colors $1,2, \dots, k$ such that adjacent vertices may share the same color. A $(d_1,d_2)$-\emph{coloring} of a graph $G$ is a defective $2$-coloring of $G$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Pongpat Sittitrai , Wannapol Pimpasalee , Kittikorn Nakprasit

In this paper, we study two popular variants of Graph Coloring -- Dominator Coloring and CD Coloring. In both problems, we are given a graph $G$ and a natural number $\ell$ as input and the goal is to properly color the vertices with at…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-01 Aritra Banik , Prahlad Narasimhan Kasthurirangan , Venkatesh Raman

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 clique colouring of a graph is a colouring of the vertices such that no maximal clique is monochromatic (ignoring isolated vertices). The least number of colours in such a colouring is the clique chromatic number. Given $n$ points $x_1,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-04 Colin McDiarmid , Dieter Mitsche , Pawel Pralat

A partition $(V_1,\ldots,V_k)$ of the vertex set of a graph $G$ with a (not necessarily proper) colouring $c$ is colourful if no two vertices in any $V_i$ have the same colour and every set $V_i$ induces a connected graph. The COLOURFUL…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-08-13 Laurent Bulteau , Konrad K. Dabrowski , Guillaume Fertin , Matthew Johnson , Daniel Paulusma , Stephane Vialette

A graph is called odd (respectively, even) if every vertex has odd (respectively, even) degree. Gallai proved that every graph can be partitioned into two even induced subgraphs, or into an odd and an even induced subgraph. We refer to a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-03-07 Rémy Belmonte , Ararat Harutyunyan , Noleen Köhler , Nikolaos Melissinos

A colouring of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a function $c: V\rightarrow\{1,2,\ldots \}$ such that $c(u)\neq c(v)$ for every $uv\in E$. A $k$-regular list assignment of $G$ is a function $L$ with domain $V$ such that for every $u\in V$, $L(u)$ is a…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-02-08 Konrad K. Dabrowski , Francois Dross , Matthew Johnson , Daniel Paulusma

We consider a framework for clustering edge-colored hypergraphs, where the goal is to cluster (equivalently, to color) objects based on the primary type of multiway interactions they participate in. One well-studied objective is to color…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Alex Crane , Thomas Stanley , Blair D. Sullivan , Nate Veldt

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

In this paper, we give list coloring variants of simple iterative defective coloring algorithms. Formally, in a list defective coloring instance, each node $v$ of a graph is given a list $L_v$ of colors and a list of allowed defects…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-06 Marc Fuchs , Fabian Kuhn

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

In graph coloring problems, the goal is to assign a positive integer color to each vertex of an input graph such that adjacent vertices do not receive the same color assignment. For classic graph coloring, the goal is to minimize the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-10-11 Joan Boyar , Leah Epstein , Lene M. Favrholdt , Kim S. Larsen , Asaf Levin

The coloring problem is studied in the paper for graph classes defined by two small forbidden induced subgraphs. We prove some sufficient conditions for effective solvability of the problem in such classes. As their corollary we determine…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Dmitriy Malyshev

We consider the single-conflict coloring problem, a graph coloring problem in which each edge of a graph receives a forbidden ordered color pair. The task is to find a vertex coloring such that no two adjacent vertices receive a pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-16 Peter Bradshaw , Tomáš Masařík

Let $G$ be a graph. For a given positive integer $d$, let $f_G(d)$ denote the largest integer $t$ such that in every coloring of the edges of $G$ with two colors there is a monochromatic subgraph with minimum degree at least $d$ and order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yair Caro , Raphael Yuster