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The paper deals with extremal problems concerning colorings of hypergraphs. By using a random recoloring algorithm we show that any $n$-uniform simple (i.e. every two distinct edges share at most one vertex) hypergraph $H$ with maximum edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-09-25 Jakub Kozik , Dmitry Shabanov

Graph colouring is a combinatorial optimisation problem with applications in several important domains, including sports scheduling, cartography, street map navigation, and timetabling. It is also of significant theoretical interest and a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Rhyd Lewis

Brooks' theorem states that all connected graphs but odd cycles and cliques can be colored with $\Delta$ colors, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the graph. Such colorings have been shown to admit non-trivial distributed algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yann Bourreau , Sebastian Brandt , Alexandre Nolin

This paper investigates the semi-streaming complexity of \textit{$k$-partial coloring}, a generalization of proper graph coloring. For $k \geq 1$, a $k$-partial coloring requires that each vertex $v$ in an $n$-node graph is assigned a color…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Avinandan Das

We present trade-offs in the incremental and fully dynamic settings to maintian a proper coloring. For any fully dynamic $2$-coloring algorithm, the maximum of the update time, number of recolorings, and query time is $\Omega(\log n)$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Manas Jyoti Kashyop , N. S. Narayanaswamy , Meghana Nasre , Sai Mohith Potluri

Reed [J.~Comb.~Theory B, 1999] showed that graphs of maximum degree $\Delta \geq 10^{14}$ without $\Delta$-cliques are $(\Delta-1)$-colorable. We design a one-pass semi-streaming algorithm for computing such a coloring. Additionally, we…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-11 Maxime Flin , Magnús M. Halldórsson

For any $\Delta$, let $k_\Delta$ be the maximum integer $k$ such that $(k+1)(k+2)\le \Delta$. We give a distributed \LOCAL algorithm that, given an integer $k < k_\Delta$, computes a valid $\Delta-k$-coloring if one exists. The algorithm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-03 Maxime Flin , Magnús M. Halldórsson , Manuel Jakob , Yannic Maus

A new algorithm for exactly sampling from the set of proper colorings of a graph is presented. This is the first such algorithm that has an expected running time that is guaranteed to be linear in the size of a graph with maximum degree \(…

Probability · Mathematics 2026-01-01 Kritika Bhandari , Mark Huber

Sampling edges from a graph in sublinear time is a fundamental problem and a powerful subroutine for designing sublinear-time algorithms. Suppose we have access to the vertices of the graph and know a constant-factor approximation to the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-11-15 Talya Eden , Shyam Narayanan , Jakub Tětek

We study the problem of online coloring for graphs with large odd girth. The best previously known algorithm uses $O(n^{1/2})$ colors, which was discovered by Kierstead in 1998. This algorithm works when the odd girth is 7 or more. In this…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Hirotaka Yoneda , Masataka Yoneda

Vizing's theorem states that every simple undirected graph can be edge-colored using fewer than $\Delta + 1$ colors, where $\Delta$ is the graph's maximum degree. The original proof was given through a polynomial-time algorithmic procedure…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-12-17 Arohee Bhoja

This paper presents massively parallel computation (MPC) algorithms in the strongly sublinear memory regime (aka, scalable MPC) for orienting and coloring graphs as a function of its subgraph density. Our algorithms run in $poly(\log\log…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-03-12 Mohsen Ghaffari , Christoph Grunau

Graph coloring is a fundamental problem in computer science. We study the fully dynamic version of the problem in which the graph is undergoing edge insertions and deletions and we wish to maintain a vertex-coloring with small update time…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-25 Monika Henzinger , Stefan Neumann , Andreas Wiese

We consider the problem of online graph colouring. Whenever a node is requested, a colour must be assigned to the node, and this colour must be different from the colours of any of its neighbours. According to the greedy algorithm the node…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-01-05 Wojciech Kordecki , Anna Łyczkowska-Hanćkowiak

We study the communication complexity of $(\Delta + 1)$ vertex coloring, where the edges of an $n$-vertex graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ are partitioned between two players. We provide a randomized protocol which uses $O(n)$ bits of…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-03 Maxime Flin , Parth Mittal

In this paper, we present a foundation study for proper colouring of edge-set graphs. The authors consider that a detailed study of the colouring of edge-set graphs corresponding to the family of paths is best suitable for such foundation…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2018-05-08 Johan Kok , Sudev Naduvath

We define a method for edge coloring signed graphs and what it means for such a coloring to be proper. Our method has many desirable properties: it specializes to the usual notion of edge coloring when the signed graph is all-negative, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-05 Richard Behr

In this paper we show that every graph $G$ of bounded maximum average degree ${\rm mad}(G)$ and with maximum degree $\Delta$ can be edge-colored using the optimal number of $\Delta$ colors in quasilinear time, whenever $\Delta\ge 2{\rm…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-07-08 Lukasz Kowalik

Over the years, there has been extensive work on fully dynamic algorithms for classic graph problems that admit greedy solutions. Examples include $(\Delta+1)$ vertex coloring, maximal independent set, and maximal matching. For all three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Soheil Behnezhad , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Omer Wasim

In wireless ad hoc or sensor networks, distributed node coloring is a fundamental problem closely related to establishing efficient communication through TDMA schedules. For networks with maximum degree Delta, a Delta + 1 coloring is the…

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