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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

A celebrated theorem of Pippenger, and Frankl and R\"odl states that every almost-regular, uniform hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$ with small maximum codegree has an almost-perfect matching. We extend this result by obtaining a ``conflict-free''…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-12 Stefan Glock , Felix Joos , Jaehoon Kim , Marcus Kühn , Lyuben Lichev

One way to define the Matching Cut problem is: Given a graph $G$, is there an edge-cut $M$ of $G$ such that $M$ is an independent set in the line graph of $G$? We propose the more general Conflict-Free Cut problem: Together with the graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-11-03 Johannes Rauch , Dieter Rautenbach , Uéverton S. Souza

A proper coloring $\phi$ of $G$ is called a proper conflict-free coloring of $G$ if for every non-isolated vertex $v$ of $G$, there is a color $c$ such that $|\phi^{-1}(c)\cap N_G(v)|=1$. As an analogy of degree-choosability of graphs, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-22 Masaki Kashima , Riste Škrekovski , Rongxing Xu

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 3-coloring of hereditary graph classes has been a deeply-researched problem in the last decade. A hereditary graph class is characterized by a (possibly infinite) list of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs $H_1,H_2,\ldots$; the graphs…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-01-12 Vít Jelínek , Tereza Klimošová , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Novotná , Aneta Pokorná

The NP-complete problems Colouring and k-Colouring $(k\geq 3$) are well studied on $H$-free graphs, i.e., graphs that do not contain some fixed graph $H$ as an induced subgraph. We research to what extent the known polynomial-time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-12-30 Daniël Paulusma , Johannes Rauch , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

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 {\em conflict-free coloring} of a graph {\em with respect to open} (resp., {\em closed}) {\em neighborhood} is a coloring of vertices such that for every vertex there is a color appearing exactly once in its open (resp., closed)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Igor Fabrici , Borut Lužar , Simona Rindošová , Roman Soták

Let $G$ be a graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ and without isolated vertices. An edge colouring $c$ of $G$ is conflict-free if the closed neighbourhood of every edge includes a uniquely coloured element. The least number of colours…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Mateusz Kamyczura , Mariusz Meszka , Jakub Przybyło

Recent work showing the existence of conflict-free almost-perfect hypergraph matchings has found many applications. We show that, assuming certain simple degree and codegree conditions on the hypergraph $ \mathcal{H} $ and the conflicts to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-25 Felix Joos , Dhruv Mubayi , Zak Smith

A path in an(a) edge(vertex)-colored graph is called \emph{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 \emph{conflict-free (vertex-)connected} if there is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Meng Ji , Xueliang Li , Xiaoyu Zhu

Conflict-free coloring (in short, CF-coloring) of a graph $G = (V,E)$ is a coloring of $V$ such that the neighborhood of each vertex contains a vertex whose color differs from the color of any other vertex in that neighborhood. Bounds on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-21 Chaya Keller , Alexandre Rok , Shakhar Smorodinsky

A path in a vertex-colored graph is called {\it conflict-free} if there is a color used on exactly one of its vertices. A vertex-colored graph is said to be {\it conflict-free vertex-connected} if any two vertices of the graph are connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Zhenzhen Li , Baoyindureng Wu

In the pliable index coding (PICOD) problem, a server is to serve multiple clients, each of which possesses a unique subset of the complete message set as side information and requests a new message which it does not have. The goal of the…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2022-12-27 Prasad Krishnan , Rogers Mathew , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram

We study the complexity of a generic hitting problem H-Subgraph Hitting, where given a fixed pattern graph $H$ and an input graph $G$, the task is to find a set $X \subseteq V(G)$ of minimum size that hits all subgraphs of $G$ isomorphic to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-11-18 Marek Cygan , Dániel Marx , Marcin Pilipczuk , Michał Pilipczuk

The conflict-free chromatic index of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colours in an edge colouring of $G$ such that the neighbourhood of every edge contains a colour appearing exactly once. Its vertex analogue is the conflict-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-27 Mateusz Kamyczura , Jakub Przybyło

In this paper we study the minimal size of edges in hypergraph families that guarantees the existence of a polychromatic coloring, that is, a $k$-coloring of a vertex set such that every hyperedge contains a vertex of all $k$ color classes.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Balázs Bursics , Bence Csonka , Luca Szepessy

In this paper, we investigate the impact of the broadcast effect arising in filterless optical networks on the computational complexity of the wavelength assignment problem. We model conflicts using an appropriate interference digraph,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-03-04 Hugo Boulier , David Coudert , Frédéric Havet , François Pirot

Let $L$ be a set of graphs. $Free$($L$) is the set of graphs that do not contain any graph in $L$ as an induced subgraph. It is known that if $L$ is a set of four-vertex graphs, then the complexity of the coloring problem for $Free$($L$) is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-06-26 Dallas J. Fraser , Angèle M. Hamel , Chính T. Hoàng