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For planar graphs, we consider the problems of \emph{list edge coloring} and \emph{list total coloring}. Edge coloring is the problem of coloring the edges while ensuring that two edges that are adjacent receive different colors. Total…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Marthe Bonamy , Benjamin Lévêque , Alexandre Pinlou

We consider three extremal problems about the number of copies of a fixed graph in another larger graph. First, we correct an error in a result of Reiher and Wagner and prove that the number of $k$-edge stars in a graph with density $x \in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-19 Emily Cairncross , Dhruv Mubayi

The number of proper $q$-colorings of a graph $G$, denoted by $P_G(q)$, is an important graph parameter that plays fundamental role in graph theory, computational complexity theory and other related fields. We study an old problem of Linial…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-18 Jie Ma , Humberto Naves

A path in an edge-colored graph is called a proper path if no two adjacent edges of the path are colored with one same color. An edge-colored graph is called $k$-proper connected if any two vertices of the graph are connected by $k$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-13 Fei Huang , Xueliang Li , Shujing Wang

Independently posed by Behzad and Vizing, the Total Coloring Conjecture asserts that the total chromatic number of a simple connected graph $G$ is either $\Delta(G)+1$ or $\Delta(G)+2$, where $\Delta(G)$ is the largest degree of any vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-13 I. J. Dejter

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

Let $G = (V,E)$ be a finite simple graph. Recall that a proper coloring of $G$ is a mapping $\varphi: V\to\{1,\ldots,k\}$ such that every color class induces an independent set. Such a $\varphi$ is called a semi-matching coloring if the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-12-11 Yaroslav Shitov

The smallest integer $k$ needed for the assignment of colors to the elements so that the coloring is proper (vertices and edges) is called the total chromatic number of a graph. Vizing and Behzed conjectured that the total coloring can be…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-17 Geetha Jayabalan , Narayanan N , K Somasundaram

The graph coloring problem (GCP) is one of the most studied NP-HARD problems in computer science. Given a graph , the task is to assign a color to all vertices such that no vertices sharing an edge receive the same color and that the number…

Neural and Evolutionary Computing · Computer Science 2021-11-19 Robiul Islam , Arup Kumar Pramanik

Consider a graph whose vertices are colored in one of two colors, say black or white. A white vertex is called integrated if it has at least as many black neighbors as white neighbors, and similarly for a black vertex. The coloring as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Charles Burnette , Broden Caton , Olivia Coward , Julian Davis , Austin Teter

Given an undirected graph $G = (V,E)$ with a set $V$ of vertices and a set $E$ of edges, the minimum sum coloring problem (MSCP) is to find a legal vertex coloring of $G$, using colors represented by natural numbers $1, 2, . . .$ such that…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-03-28 Qinghua Wu , Jin-Kao Hao

In this paper we study threshold coloring of graphs, where the vertex colors represented by integers are used to describe any spanning subgraph of the given graph as follows. Pairs of vertices with near colors imply the edge between them is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-05-20 Md. Jawaherul Alam , Steven Chaplick , Gašper Fijavž , Michael Kaufmann , Stephen G. Kobourov , Sergey Pupyrev

In this paper, we study two generalizations of Vertex Cover and Edge Cover, namely Colorful Vertex Cover and Colorful Edge Cover. In the Colorful Vertex Cover problem, given an $n$-vertex edge-colored graph $G$ with colors from $\{1,…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-08-31 Sayan Bandyapadhyay , Aritra Banik , Sujoy Bhore

For a positive integer $k$ and graph $G=(V,E)$, a $k$-colouring of $G$ is a mapping $c: V\rightarrow\{1,2,\ldots,k\}$ such that $c(u)\neq c(v)$ whenever $uv\in E$. The $k$-Colouring problem is to decide, for a given $G$, whether a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-07-08 Shenwei Huang , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma

We propose two fixed-parameter tractable algorithms for the weighted Max-Cut problem on embedded 1-planar graphs parameterized by the crossing number $k$ of the given embedding. A graph is called 1-planar if it can be drawn in the plane…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-12-01 Christine Dahn , Nils M. Kriege , Petra Mutzel , Julian Schilling

A packing $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ 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 $x,y\in V_i$ is at least $i+1$. The packing chromatic number, $\chi_p(G)$, of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-31 József Balogh , Alexandr Kostochka , Xujun Liu

Given a non-decreasing sequence S = (s 1,s 2,. .. ,s k) of positive integers, an S-packing edge-coloring of a graph G is a partition of the edge set of G into k subsets {X 1 ,X 2,. .. ,X k } such that for each 1 $\le$ i $\le$ k, the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-30 Nicolas Gastineau , Olivier Togni

A matching cut is a matching that is also an edge cut. In the problem Minimum Matching Cut, we ask for a matching cut with the minimum number of edges in the matching. We investigate the differences in complexity between Minimum Matching…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-20 Felicia Lucke , Joseph Marchand , Jannik Olbrich

A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn on a plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. In this paper, we first give a useful structural theorem for 1-planar graphs, and then apply it to the list edge and list total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-17 Xin Zhang , Bei Niu , Jiguo Yu

Motivated by the definition of linear coloring on simplicial complexes, recently introduced in the context of algebraic topology \cite{Civan}, and the framework through which it was studied, we introduce the linear coloring on graphs. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-29 Kyriaki Ioannidou , Stavros D. Nikolopoulos