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The packing chromatic number $\chi$ $\rho$ (G) of a graph G is the smallest integer k such that its set of vertices V (G) can be partitioned into k disjoint subsets V 1 ,. .. , V k , in such a way that every two distinct vertices in V i are…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-08-15 Daouya Laïche , Eric Sopena

The packing chromatic number $\chi_{\rho}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ such that the vertex set of $G$ can be partitioned into sets $V_i$, $i\in \{1,\ldots,k\}$, where each $V_i$ is an $i$-packing. In this paper, we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-13 Boštjan Brešar , Jasmina Ferme

The packing chromatic number $\chi_{\rho}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ such that the vertex set of $G$ can be partitioned into sets $\Pi_1,\ldots,\Pi_k$, where $\Pi_i$, $i\in [k]$, is an $i$-packing. The following…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-08-22 Boštjan Brešar , Sandi Klavžar , Douglas F. Rall , Kirsti Wash

The packing chromatic number $\chi_{\rho}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ such that there exists a $k$-vertex coloring of $G$ in which any two vertices receiving color $i$ are at distance at least $i+1$. In this short note we…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Dragana Božović , Iztok Peterin

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 graph $G$ is $k$-vertex-critical if $\chi(G)=k$ but $\chi(G-v)<k$ for all $v\in V(G)$ where $\chi(G)$ denotes the chromatic number of $G$. We show that there are only finitely many $k$-critical $(P_3+\ell P_1)$-free graphs for all $k$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-06-08 Tala Abuadas , Ben Cameron , Chính T. Hoàng , Joe Sawada

For a nondecreasing sequence of integers $S=(s_1, s_2, \ldots)$ an $S$-packing $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a mapping from $V(G)$ to $\{1, 2,\ldots,k\}$ such that vertices with color $i$ have pairwise distance greater than $s_i$. By…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-19 Fei Deng , Zehui Shao , Aleksander Vesel

Let $r$ be any positive integer. We prove that for every sufficiently large $k$ there exists a $k$-chromatic vertex-critical graph $G$ such that $\chi(G-R)=k$ for every set $R \subseteq E(G)$ with $|R|\le r$. This partially solves a problem…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-20 Anders Martinsson , Raphael Steiner

A packing $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a partition of $V(G)$ into $k$ disjoint non-empty classes $V_1, \dots, V_k$, such that if $u,v \in V_i$, $i\in [k]$, $u\ne v$, then the distance between $u$ and $v$ is greater than $i$. The packing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-12 Zahra Hamed-Labbafian , Mostafa Tavakoli , Mojgan Afkhami , Sandi Klavžar

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 2018-10-09 József Balogh , Alexandr Kostochka , Xujun Liu

For a non-decreasing sequence of integers $S=(s_1,s_2, \dots, s_k)$, an $S$-packing coloring of $G$ is a partition of $V(G)$ into $k$ subsets $V_1,V_2,\dots,V_k$ such that the distance between any two distinct vertices $x,y \in V_i$ is at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-25 Ayman El Zein , Maidoun Mortada

The packing chromatic number $\chi_\rho(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the smallest integer $k$ needed to proper color the vertices of $G$ in such a way the distance between any two vertices having color $i$ be at least $i+1$. We obtain…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2015-10-20 Graciela Nasini , Daniel Severin , Pablo Torres

For $1\leq s_1 \le s_2 \le \ldots \le s_k$ and a graph $G$, a packing $(s_1, s_2, \ldots, s_k)$-coloring of $G$ is a partition of $V(G)$ into sets $V_1, V_2, \ldots, V_k$ such that, for each $1\leq i \leq k$, the distance between any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-26 Alexandr Kostochka , Xujun Liu

For a sequence $S=(s_1, \ldots, s_k)$ of non-decreasing integers, a packing $S$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a partition of its vertex set $V(G)$ into $V_1, \ldots, V_k$ such that for every pair of distinct vertices $u,v \in V_i$, where $1…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-04-16 Xujun Liu , Xin Zhang , Yanting Zhang

A graph $G$ is called chromatic-choosable if $\chi(G)=ch(G)$. A natural problem is to determine the minimum number of vertices in a $k$-chromatic non-$k$-choosable graph. It was conjectured by Ohba, and proved by Noel, Reed and Wu that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-01 Jialu Zhu , Xuding Zhu

For a non-decreasing sequence of positive integers $S = (a_1, a_2,\ldots)$, the $S$-packing chromatic number of a graph $G$ is the smallest positive integer $k$ such that the vertices can be colored with $k$ colors, where the distance…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Teeradej Kittipassorn , Peerawit Suriya

The chromatic number $\chi((G,\sigma))$ of a signed graph $(G,\sigma)$ is the smallest number $k$ for which there is a function $c : V(G) \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_k$ such that $c(v) \not= \sigma(e) c(w)$ for every edge $e = vw$. Let…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-10-05 Yingli Kang , Eckhard Steffen

The strong chromatic number $\chi_{\text{s}}(G)$ of a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices is the least number $r$ with the following property: after adding $r \lceil n/r \rceil - n$ isolated vertices to $G$ and taking the union with any collection of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-08-15 Allan Lo , Nicolás Sanhueza-Matamala

The packing chromatic number $\chi$ $\rho$ (G) of an undirected (resp. oriented) graph G is the smallest integer k such that its set of vertices V (G) can be partitioned into k disjoint subsets V 1,..., V k, in such a way that every two…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-20 Daouya Laïche , Isma Bouchemakh , Eric Sopena

The chromatic edge-stability number ${\rm es}_{\chi}(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of edges whose removal results in a spanning subgraph $G'$ with $\chi(G')=\chi(G)-1$. Edge-stability critical graphs are introduced as the graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-18 Boštjan Brešar , Sandi Klavžar , Nazanin Movarraei