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Wang and Lih in 2002 conjectured that every planar graph without adjacent triangles is 4-choosable. In this paper, we prove that every planar graph without any 4-cycle adjacent to two triangles is DP-4-colorable, which improves the results…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-04-25 Runrun Liu , Xiangwen Li

We prove a conjecture of Dvo\v{r}\'ak, Kr\'al, Nejedl\'y, and \v{S}krekovski that planar graphs of girth at least five are square $(\Delta+2)$-colorable for large enough $\Delta$. In fact, we prove the stronger statement that such graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-18 Marthe Bonamy , Daniel W. Cranston , Luke Postle

It was conjectured by Steinberg in 1976 that planar graphs without cycles of length 4 or 5 are 3-colorable. This conjecture attracted a substantial amount of attention and was finally refuted by Cohen-Addad, Hebdige, Kr\'{a}l', Li and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Xiaoyan Xu , Xuding Zhu

For graphs of bounded maximum average degree, we consider the problem of 2-distance coloring. This is the problem of coloring the vertices while ensuring that two vertices that are adjacent or have a common neighbor receive different…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-01-31 Marthe Bonamy , Benjamin Lévêque , Alexandre Pinlou

In this article, we use a unified approach to prove several classes of planar graphs are DP-$3$-colorable, which extend the corresponding results on $3$-choosability.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Runrun Liu , Sarah Loeb , Yuxue Yin , Gexin Yu

In 1980, Albertson and Berman introduced partial coloring. In 2000, Albertson, Grossman, and Haas introduced partial list coloring. Here, we initiate the study of partial coloring for an insightful generalization of list coloring introduced…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-01-12 Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Michael J. Pelsmajer

Correspondence coloring, or DP-coloring, is a generalization of list coloring introduced recently by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle. In this paper we establish a version of Dirac's theorem on the minimum number of edges in critical graphs in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-07-27 Anton Bernshteyn , Alexandr Kostochka

A defective $k$-coloring is a coloring on the vertices of a graph using colors $1,2, \dots, k$ such that adjacent vertices may share the same color. A $(d_1,d_2)$-\emph{coloring} of a graph $G$ is a defective $2$-coloring of $G$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-14 Pongpat Sittitrai , Wannapol Pimpasalee , Kittikorn Nakprasit

Given a graph $G$ and a list assignment $L(v)$ for each vertex of $v$ of $G$. A proper $L$-list-coloring of $G$ is a function that maps every vertex to a color in $L(v)$ such that no pair of adjacent vertices have the same color. We say…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-09-30 Hoang La , Mickael Montassier

In order to solve a question on list coloring of planar graphs, Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle introduced the concept of so called DP-coloring, thereby extending the concept of list-coloring. DP-coloring was anaylized in detail by Bernshteyn,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-21 Thomas Schweser

DP-coloring was introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle as a generalization of list coloring and signed coloring. A new coloring, strictly $f$-degenerate transversal, is a further generalization of DP-coloring and $L$-forested-coloring. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-28 Rui Li , Tao Wang

The chromatic polynomial of a graph $G$, denoted $P(G,m)$, is equal to the number of proper $m$-colorings of $G$. The list color function of graph $G$, denoted $P_{\ell}(G,m)$, is a list analogue of the chromatic polynomial that has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-07-13 Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) is a well-studied generalization of list coloring introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2015. The following sharp bound on the DP-chromatic number of the Cartesian product of graphs $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-30 Hemanshu Kaul , Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Gunjan Sharma

We prove that the two-colouring number of any planar graph is at most 8. This resolves a question of Kierstead et al. [SIAM J. Discrete Math.~23 (2009), 1548--1560]. The result is optimal.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-18 Zdeněk Dvořák , Adam Kabela , Tomáš Kaiser

DP-coloring is a generalization of list coloring that was introduced in 2015 by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle. The chromatic polynomial of a graph $G$, denoted $P(G,m)$, is equal to the number of proper $m$-colorings of $G$. A well-known tool…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-20 Jeffrey A. Mudrock

All planar graphs are 4-colorable and 5-choosable, while some planar graphs are not 4-choosable. Determining which properties guarantee that a planar graph can be colored using lists of size four has received significant attention. In terms…

A vertex coloring of a graph $G$ is called a $2$-distance coloring if any two vertices at a distance at most $2$ from each other receive different colors. Recently, Bousquet et al. (Discrete Mathematics, 346(4), 113288, 2023) proved that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-16 Zakir Deniz

A majority coloring of a directed graph is a vertex-coloring in which every vertex has the same color as at most half of its out-neighbors. Kreutzer, Oum, Seymour, van der Zypen and Wood proved that every digraph has a majority 4-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Michael Anastos , Ander Lamaison , Raphael Steiner , Tibor Szabó

A vertex coloring of a graph $G$ is called a 2-distance coloring if any two vertices at distance at most $2$ from each other receive different colors. Let $G$ be a planar graph with girth at least $5$. We prove that $G$ admits a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-07 Zakir Deniz

Square coloring is a variant of graph coloring where vertices within distance two must receive different colors. When considering planar graphs, the most famous conjecture (Wegner, 1977) states that $\frac32\Delta+1$ colors are sufficient…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Nicolas Bousquet , Quentin Deschamps , Lucas de Meyer , Théo Pierron