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A planar graph can be embedded in a piecewise linear manifold, and the lattice on each linear piece can be colored with 3-coloring. If a planar graph can be colored with multiple 3-coloring, i.e. coloring the graph in pieces with different…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-10 Shaoqing Li

A linearly ordered (LO) $k$-colouring of a hypergraph is a colouring of its vertices with colours $1, \dots, k$ such that each edge contains a unique maximal colour. Deciding whether an input hypergraph admits LO $k$-colouring with a fixed…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-12-21 Marek Filakovský , Tamio-Vesa Nakajima , Jakub Opršal , Gianluca Tasinato , Uli Wagner

An injective $k$-edge-coloring of a graph $G$ is an assignment of colors, i.e. integers in $\{1, \ldots , k\}$, to the edges of $G$ such that any two edges each incident with one distinct endpoint of a third edge, receive distinct colors.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-04-19 Florent Foucaud , Hervé Hocquard , Dimitri Lajou

We prove several results about the complexity of the role colouring problem. A role colouring of a graph $G$ is an assignment of colours to the vertices of $G$ such that two vertices of the same colour have identical sets of colours in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2014-08-26 Christopher Purcell , M. Puck Rombach

We provide a certifying algorithm for the problem of deciding whether a P5- free graph is 3-colorable by showing there are exactly six finite graphs that are P5-free and not 3-colorable and minimal with respect to this property.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-07-22 Daniel Bruce , Chinh T. Hoang , Joe Sawada

For $k\geq 1$, a $k$-colouring $c$ of $G$ is a mapping from $V(G)$ to $\{1,2,\ldots,k\}$ such that $c(u)\neq c(v)$ for any two non-adjacent vertices $u$ and $v$. The $k$-Colouring problem is to decide if a graph $G$ has a $k$-colouring. For…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-21 Barnaby Martin , Daniel Paulusma , Siani Smith

We say that a graph is $k$-mixing if it is possible to transform any $k$-coloring into any other via a sequence of single vertex recolorings keeping a proper coloring all along. Cereceda, van den Heuvel and Johnson proved that deciding if a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-09 Nicolas Bousquet

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 Colouring problem is that of deciding, given a graph $G$ and an integer $k$, whether $G$ admits a (proper) $k$-colouring. For all graphs $H$ up to five vertices, we classify the computational complexity of Colouring for…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-06 Konrad K. Dabrowski , François Dross , Daniël Paulusma

The Four color problem is closely related to other branches of mathematics and practical applications. More than 20 of its reformulations are known, which connect this problem with problems of algebra, statistical mechanics and planning.…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2024-05-10 Sergey Kurapov , Maxim Davidovsky

Determining the complexity of colouring ($4K_1, C_4$)-free graph is a long open problem. Recently Penev showed that there is a polynomial-time algorithm to colour a ($4K_1, C_4, C_6$)-free graph. In this paper, we will prove that if $G$ is…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-01 Chính T. Hoàng , Ramin Javadi , Nicolas Trotignon

${ NP}$-complete problem "Hamiltonian cycle"\ for graph $G=(V,E)$ is extended to the "Hamiltonian Complement of the Graph"\ problem of finding the minimal cardinality set $H$ containing additional edges so that graph $G=(V,E\cup H)$ is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2018-08-27 Anatoly Panyukov

In an article [3] published recently in this journal, it was shown that when k >= 3, the problem of deciding whether the distinguishing chromatic number of a graph is at most k is NP-hard. We consider the problem when k = 2. In regards to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2009-07-06 Elaine M. Eschen , Chinh T. Hoang , R. Sritharan , Lorna Stewart

DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring introduced recently by Dvo\v{r}\'ak and Postle (2017). In this paper, we prove that every planar graph $G$ without $4$-cycles adjacent to $k$-cycles is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Lily Chen , Runrun Liu , Gexin Yu , Ren Zhao , Xiangqian Zhou

The chromatic number for properly colouring the facets of a combinatorial simple $n$-polytope $P^n$ that is the orbit space of a quasitoric manifold satisfies the inequality $n\leq P^n\leq 2^n-1$. The inequality is sharp for $n=2$ but not…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-10 Djordje Baralic

The mutual-visibility chromatic number of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of colors needed to color the vertices of $G$ such that each color class is a mutual-visibility set. In this paper, we prove that determining the mutual-visibility…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Saneesh Babu , Gabriele Di Stefano , Aparna Lakshmanan S

A \emph{unichord} in a graph is an edge that is the unique chord of a cycle. A \emph{square} is an induced cycle on four vertices. A graph is \emph{unichord-free} if none of its edges is a unichord. We give a slight restatement of a known…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-02-05 Raphael C. S. Machado , Celina M. H. de Figueiredo , Nicolas Trotignon

The $k$-Coloring problem on hereditary graph classes has been a deeply researched problem over the last decade. A hereditary graph class is characterized by a (possibly infinite) list of minimal forbidden induced subgraphs. We say that a…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-09-03 Justyna Jaworska , Bartłomiej Kielak , Tomáš Masařík , Jana Masaříková

Let $P_t$ and $C_\ell$ denote a path on $t$ vertices and a cycle on $\ell$ vertices, respectively. In this paper we study the $k$-coloring problem for $(P_t,C_\ell)$-free graphs. Maffray and Morel, and Bruce, Hoang and Sawada, have proved…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-10-02 Pavol Hell , Shenwei Huang

A graph is called $t$-perfect if its stable set polytope is fully described by non-negativity, edge and odd-cycle constraints. We characterise $P_5$-free $t$-perfect graphs in terms of forbidden $t$-minors. Moreover, we show that $P_5$-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-24 Henning Bruhn , Elke Fuchs