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For every $r\ge13$, we show every 1-planar graph $G$ with $\Delta(G)\le r$ has an equitable $r$-coloring.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-06 Daniel Cranston , Reem Mahmoud

For a fixed number of colors, we show that, in node-weighted split graphs, cographs, and graphs of bounded tree-width, one can determine in polynomial time whether a proper list-coloring of the vertices of a graph such that the total weight…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-09-26 Cédric Bentz

In this work, we introduce DPG-coloring using the concepts of DP-coloring and variable degeneracy to modify the proofs on the following papers: (i) DP-3-coloring of planar graphs without $4$, $9$-cycles and cycles of two lengths from $\{6,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-12 Keaitsuda Maneeruk Nakprasit , Kittikorn Nakprasit

A $q$-\emph{equitable coloring} of a graph $G$ is a proper $q$-coloring such that the sizes of any two color classes differ by at most one. In contrast with ordinary coloring, a graph may have an equitable $q$-coloring but has no equitable…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-19 Keaitsuda Maneeruk Nakprasit , Kittikorn Nakprasit

Graph coloring problems are a central topic of study in the theory of algorithms. We study the problem of partially coloring partially colorable graphs. For $\alpha \leq 1$ and $k \in \mathbb{Z}^+$, we say that a graph $G=(V,E)$ is…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-09-02 Suprovat Ghoshal , Anand Louis , Rahul Raychaudhury

With any (not necessarily proper) edge $k$-colouring $\gamma:E(G)\longrightarrow\{1,\dots,k\}$ of a graph $G$,one can associate a vertex colouring $\sigma\_{\gamma}$ given by $\sigma\_{\gamma}(v)=\sum\_{e\ni v}\gamma(e)$.A…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-01-18 Olivier Baudon , Monika Pilsniak , Jakub Przybylo , Mohammed Senhaji , Eric Sopena , Mariusz Wozniak

In 2003 Kostochka, Pelsmajer, and West introduced a list analogue of equitable coloring called equitable choosability. A $k$-assignment, $L$, for a graph $G$ assigns a list, $L(v)$, of $k$ available colors to each $v \in V(G)$, and an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-11 Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Madelynn Chase , Isaac Kadera , Ezekiel Thornburgh , Tim Wagstrom

The reconfiguration graph $R_k(G)$ of the $k$-colourings of a graph $G$ has as vertex set the set of all possible $k$-colourings of $G$ and two colourings are adjacent if they differ on the colour of exactly one vertex. Cereceda conjectured…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Eduard Eiben , Carl Feghali

The weak degeneracy of a graph $G$ is a numerical parameter that was recently introduced by the first two authors with the aim of understanding the power of greedy algorithms for graph coloring. Every $d$-degenerate graph is weakly…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-06 Anton Bernshteyn , Eugene Lee , Evelyne Smith-Roberge

We survey results concerning reconfigurations of colourings and dominating sets in graphs. The vertices of the $k$-colouring graph $\mathcal{C}_{k}(G)$ of a graph $G$ correspond to the proper $k$-colourings of a graph $G$, with two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-03-16 C. M. Mynhardt , S. Nasserasr

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

An acyclic edge coloring of a graph is a proper edge coloring without any bichromatic cycles. The acyclic chromatic index of a graph $G$ denoted by $a'(G)$, is the minimum $k$ such that $G$ has an acyclic edge coloring with $k$ colors.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-01-31 Nevil Anto , Manu Basavaraju , Suresh Manjanath Hegde , Shashanka Kulamarva

We study the problem of efficiently refuting the k-colorability of a graph, or equivalently certifying a lower bound on its chromatic number. We give formal evidence of average-case computational hardness for this problem in sparse random…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-08-28 Afonso S. Bandeira , Jess Banks , Dmitriy Kunisky , Cristopher Moore , Alexander S. Wein

Two (proper) colorings of a graph are adjacent if they differ on exactly one vertex. Jerrum proved that any $(d + 2)$-coloring of any d-degenerate graph can be transformed into any other via a sequence of adjacent colorings. A result of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-12-22 Valentin Bartier , Nicolas Bousquet , Marc Heinrich

A $k$-edge-coloured graph is colour-balanced if each colour appears equally often. Resolving a conjecture of Pardey and Rautenbach, we show that any colour-balanced $k$-edge-coloured complete graph $K_{2kt}$ contains a perfect matching that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Emma Hogan , Alex Scott , Dmitry Tsarev

A total coloring of a simple undirected graph $G$ is an assignment of colors to its vertices and edges such that the colors given to the vertices form a proper vertex coloring, the colors given to the edges form a proper edge coloring, and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-08-06 Diptimaya Behera , Mathew C. Francis , Sreejith K. Pallathumadam

The broadcasting models on a d-ary tree T arise in many contexts such as biology, information theory, statistical physics and computer science. We consider the k-colouring model, i.e. the root of T is assigned an arbitrary colour and,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-11-08 Charilaos Efthymiou

Differential Privacy is the gold standard in privacy-preserving data analysis. This paper addresses the challenge of producing a differentially edge-private vertex coloring. In this paper, we present two novel algorithms to approach this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-17 Michael Xie , Jiayi Wu , Dung Nguyen , Aravind Srinivasan

For all integers $k\geq 3$, we give an $O(n^4)$ time algorithm for the problem whose instance is a graph $G$ of girth at least $k$ together with $k$ vertices and whose question is "Does $G$ contains an induced subgraph containing the $k$…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-09-06 Wei Liu , Nicolas Trotignon

We recently introduced proportional choosability, a new list analogue of equitable coloring. Like equitable coloring, and unlike list equitable coloring (a.k.a. equitable choosability), proportional choosability bounds sizes of color…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-02 Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Michael J. Pelsmajer , Benjamin Reiniger