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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

A proper coloring of a graph is \emph{conflict-free} if, for every non-isolated vertex, some color is used exactly once on its neighborhood. Caro, Petru\v{s}evski, and \v{S}krekovski proved that every graph $G$ has a proper conflict-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Daniel W. Cranston , Chun-Hung Liu

The chromatic number of the plane problem asks for the minimum number of colors so that each point of the plane can be assigned a single color with the property that no two points unit-distance apart are identically colored. It is now known…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-14 Geoffrey Exoo , Dan Ismailescu

The star chromatic number on a graph is the minimum number of colors in a proper vertex coloring forbidding any $P_4$ with two colors (bicolored). This problem was introduced by Gr\"unbaum (1973) together with the acyclic coloring of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-24 Derman Keskinkilic , Lale Ozkahya

We consider the Hadwiger-Nelson problem on the chromatic number of the plane under conditions of coloring a map containing a finite number of vertices in any bounded region. Woodall (1973) and Townsend (1981) showed that at least 6 colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-05 Georgy Sokolov , Vsevolod Voronov

A graph is $(c_1, c_2, ..., c_k)$-colorable if the vertex set can be partitioned into $k$ sets $V_1,V_2, ..., V_k$, such that for every $i: 1\leq i\leq k$ the subgraph $G[V_i]$ has maximum degree at most $c_i$. We show that every planar…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-17 Owen Hill , Gexin Yu

We give a characterization of finite sets of triples of elements (e.g., positive integers) that can be colored with two colors such that for every element $i$ in each color class there exists a triple which does not contain $i$. We give a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-24 Balázs Keszegh

Deciding whether a planar graph (even of maximum degree $4$) is $3$-colorable is NP-complete. Determining subclasses of planar graphs being $3$-colorable has a long history, but since Gr\"{o}tzsch's result that triangle-free planar graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-15 François Dross , Borut Lužar , Mária Maceková , Roman Soták

The problem of finding the minimum number of colors to color a graph properly without containing any bicolored copy of a fixed family of subgraphs has been widely studied. Most well-known examples are star coloring and acyclic coloring of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Alaittin Kırtışoğlu , Lale Özkahya

This paper is concerned with efficiently coloring sparse graphs in the distributed setting with as few colors as possible. According to the celebrated Four Color Theorem, planar graphs can be colored with at most 4 colors, and the proof…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-28 Pierre Aboulker , Marthe Bonamy , Nicolas Bousquet , Louis Esperet

In 1978 Babai raised the question whether all minimal Cayley graphs have bounded chromatic number; in 1994 he conjectured a negative answer. In this paper we show that any minimal Cayley graph of a (finitely generated) generalized dihedral…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-09 Ignacio García-Marco , Kolja Knauer

We investigate proper $(a:b)$-fractional colorings of $n$-uniform hypergraphs, which generalize traditional integer colorings of graphs. Each vertex is assigned $b$ distinct colors from a set of $a$ colors, and an edge is properly colored…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-18 Margarita Akhmejanova , Sean Longbrake

The chromatic number of a graph is the minimum $k$ such that the graph has a proper $k$-coloring. There are many coloring parameters in the literature that are proper colorings that also forbid bicolored subgraphs. Some examples are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Ilkyoo Choi , Ringi Kim , Boram Park

Geometric motivations warranted the study of hypergraphs on ordered vertices that have no pair of hyperedges that induce an alternation of some given length. Such hypergraphs are called ABA-free, ABAB-free and so on. Since then various…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Balázs Keszegh , Dömötör Pálvölgyi

An interval coloring of a graph G is a proper coloring of E(G) by positive integers such that the colors on the edges incident to any vertex are consecutive. A (3,4)-biregular bigraph is a bipartite graph in which each vertex of one part…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Armen S. Asratian , Carl Johan Casselgren , Jennifer Vandenbussche , Douglas B. West

A majority coloring of an undirected graph is a vertex coloring in which for each vertex there are at least as many bi-chromatic edges containing that vertex as monochromatic ones. It is known that for every countable graph a majority…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-06-07 Bartłomiej Bosek , Aleksander Katan

Total coloring is a variant of edge coloring where both vertices and edges are to be colored. A graph is totally $k$-choosable if for any list assignment of $k$ colors to each vertex and each edge, we can extract a proper total coloring. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-12-12 Marthe Bonamy , Théo Pierron , Éric Sopena

We consider the problem of $2$-coloring geometric hypergraphs. Specifically, we show that there is a constant $m$ such that any finite set of points in the plane $\mathcal{S} \subset {\mathbb R}^2$ can be $2$-colored such that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-13 Eyal Ackerman , Balázs Keszegh , Máté Vizer

It is known that every loopless cubic graph is 4-edge choosable. We prove the following strengthened result. Let G be a planar cubic graph having b cut-edges. There exists a set F of at most 5b/2 edges of G with the following property. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-10-31 Luis Goddyn , Andrea Spencer

For a connected graph, we define the proper-walk connection number as the minimum number of colors needed to color the edges of a graph so that there is a walk between every pair of vertices without two consecutive edges having the same…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-25 Robert Melville , Wayne Goddard