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Rainbow connection number, $rc(G)$, of a connected graph $G$ is the minimum number of colours needed to colour its edges, so that every pair of vertices is connected by at least one path in which no two edges are coloured the same. In this…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-05-31 L. Sunil Chandran , Rogers Mathew , Deepak Rajendraprasad

The rainbow connection number, $rc(G)$, of a connected graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors needed to color its edges so that every pair of vertices is connected by at least one path in which no two edges are colored the same. We show…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-27 Irene Y. Lo

Drawings of non-planar graphs always result in edge crossings. When there are many edges crossing at small angles, it is often difficult to follow these edges, because of the multiple visual paths resulted from the crossings that slow down…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Yifan Hu , Lei Shi

We study a variation of the graph colouring problem on random graphs of finite average connectivity. Given the number of colours, we aim to maximise the number of different colours at neighbouring vertices (i.e. one edge distance) of any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bounkong , J. van Mourik , D. Saad

Coloring is a notoriously hard problem, and even more so in the online setting, where each arriving vertex has to be colored immediately and irrevocably. Already on trees, which are trivially two-colorable, it is impossible to achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-29 Fabian Frei , Matthias Gehnen , Dennis Komm , Rastislav Královič , Richard Královič , Peter Rossmanith , Moritz Stocker

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph. We use $e(G)$ and $c(G)$ to denote the number of edges and colors in $G$, respectively. A subgraph $H$ is called rainbow if $c(H)=e(H)$. Li et al. (European J. Combin., 36 (2014), 453-459) proved that every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Hongliang Lu , Zixuan Yang , Feihong Yuan

A spanning tree of an edge-colored graph is rainbow provided that each of its edges receives a distinct color. In this paper we consider the natural extremal problem of maximizing and minimizing the number of rainbow spanning trees in a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-08-07 Matthew DeVilbiss , Bradley Fain , Amber Holmes , Paul Horn , Sonwabile Mafunda , K. E. Perry

A path in an edge-colored graph is \textit{rainbow} if no two edges of it are colored the same. The graph is said to be \textit{rainbow connected} if there is a rainbow path between every pair of vertices. If there is a rainbow shortest…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-18 Juho Lauri

One method to obtain a proper vertex coloring of graphs using a reasonable number of colors is to start from any arbitrary proper coloring and then repeat some local re-coloring techniques to reduce the number of color classes. The Grundy…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2024-03-05 Manouchehr Zaker

The {\em rainbow vertex-connection number}, $rvc(G)$, of a connected graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors needed to color its vertices such that every pair of vertices is connected by at least one path whose internal vertices have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-27 Xueliang Li , Sujuan Liu

We study a graph coloring problem that is otherwise easy but becomes quite non-trivial in the one-pass streaming model. In contrast to previous graph coloring problems in streaming that try to find an assignment of colors to vertices, our…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-10-27 Anup Bhattacharya , Arijit Bishnu , Gopinath Mishra , Anannya Upasana

An edge-coloured path is rainbow if all of its edges have distinct colours. Let $G$ be a connected graph. The rainbow connection number of $G$, denoted by $rc(G)$, is the minimum number of colours in an edge-colouring of $G$ such that, any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-03-13 Rongxia Tang , Henry Liu , Yueping Shi , Chenming Wang

Nearly three decades ago, Bar-Noy, Motwani and Naor showed that no online edge-coloring algorithm can edge color a graph optimally. Indeed, their work, titled "the greedy algorithm is optimal for on-line edge coloring", shows that the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-05-17 Amin Saberi , David Wajc

The graph colouring problem consists of assigning labels, or colours, to the vertices of a graph such that no two adjacent vertices share the same colour. In this work we investigate whether deep reinforcement learning can be used to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-04-11 George Watkins , Giovanni Montana , Juergen Branke

We study graph coloring problems in the streaming model, where the goal is to process an $n$-vertex graph whose edges arrive in a stream, using a limited space that is smaller than the trivial $O(n^2)$ bound. While prior work has largely…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-10-22 Sepehr Assadi , Janani Sundaresan , Helia Yazdanyar

A subgraph of an edge-colored graph is called \emph{rainbow} if all of its edges have distinct colors. There has been much research on the topic of finding a large rainbow matching in a properly edge-colored graph, where a proper…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-28 Debsoumya Chakraborti , Po-Shen Loh

An edge-colored graph is rainbow if all its edges are colored with distinct colors. For a fixed graph $H$, the rainbow Tur\'an number $\mathrm{ex}^{\ast}(n,H)$ is defined as the maximum number of edges in a properly edge-colored graph on…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-15 Shagnik Das , Choongbum Lee , Benny Sudakov

In this paper we study the number of vertex recolorings that an algorithm needs to perform in order to maintain a proper coloring of a graph under insertion and deletion of vertices and edges. We present two algorithms that achieve…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-06-26 Luis Barba , Jean Cardinal , Matias Korman , Stefan Langerman , André van Renssen , Marcel Roeloffzen , Sander Verdonschot

An edge-colored graph $G$, where adjacent edges may have the same color, is {\it rainbow connected} if every two vertices of $G$ are connected by a path whose edge has distinct colors. A graph $G$ is {\it $k$-rainbow connected} if one can…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-03-15 Hengzhe Li , Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun , Yan Zhao

We investigate the relationship between two kinds of vertex colorings of graphs: unique-maximum colorings and conflict-free colorings. In a unique-maximum coloring, the colors are ordered, and in every path of the graph the maximum color…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-12-17 Panagiotis Cheilaris , Geza Toth