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A 1-selection $f$ of a graph $G$ is a function $f: V(G)\rightarrow E(G)$ such that $f(v)$ is incident to $v$ for every vertex $v$. The 1-removed $G_f$ is the graph $(V(G),E(G)\setminus f[V(G)])$. The (1-)robust chromatic number $\chi_1(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-04 Gábor Bacsó , Csilla Bujtás , Balázs Patkós , Zsolt Tuza , Máté Vizer

The locating-chromatic number of a graph $G$ is the smallest integer $n$, such that $G$ has a proper $n$-coloring $c$ and all vertices have different vectors of distances to the colors generated by $c$. We study the asymptotic value of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Yusuf Hafidh , Edy Tri Baskoro , Devi Imulia Dian Primaskun

The distinguishing chromatic number of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of colors needed to properly color the vertices of $G$ so that the trivial automorphism is the only symmetry of $G$ that preserves the coloring. We investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-27 Michael D. Barrus , Jean Guillaume , Benjamin Lantz

The strong chromatic index of a multigraph is the minimum $k$ such that the edge set can be $k$-colored requiring that each color class induces a matching. We verify a conjecture of Faudree, Gy\'{a}rf\'{a}s, Schelp and Tuza, showing that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-08-03 A. V. Kostochka , X. Li , W. Ruksasakchai , M. Santana , T. Wang , G. Yu

Coloring a graph $G$ consists in finding an assignment of colors $c: V(G)\to\{1,\ldots,p\}$ such that any pair of adjacent vertices receives different colors. The minimum integer $p$ such that a coloring exists is called the chromatic…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-12-25 Théo Pierron

We prove for k at most 10, that every graph of chromatic number k with a unique k-coloring admits a clique minor of order k.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-20 Matthias Kriesell

For a positive integer $k$, a $k$-colouring of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a mapping $c: V\rightarrow\{1,2,...,k\}$ such that $c(u)\neq c(v)$ whenever $uv\in E$. The Colouring problem is to decide, for a given $G$ and $k$, whether a $k$-colouring…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2016-02-16 Petr A. Golovach , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma , Jian Song

The {\em acyclic chromatic number} of a graph is the least number of colors needed to properly color its vertices so that none of its cycles has only two colors. The {\em acyclic chromatic index} is the analogous graph parameter for edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Lefteris Kirousis , John Livieratos

In this paper we obtain some upper bounds for $b$-chromatic number of $K_{1,t}$ -free graphs, graphs with given minimum clique partition and bipartite graphs. These bounds are in terms of either clique number or chromatic number of graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Mekkia Kouider , Manouchehr Zaker

The packing chromatic number of a graph is the minimum number of colors for which the graph admits a packing coloring. This distance-based parameter may change under local structural modifications of the graph. In this paper, we introduce…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-20 Batoul Tarhini , Didem Gözüpek

The chromatic threshold of a graph $H$ is the minimum-degree density above which every $H$-free graph has bounded chromatic number. We study a two-color Ramsey analogue: for graphs $H_1$ and $H_2$, we ask for the minimum-degree density…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Jun Gao , Hong Liu , Zhuo Wu , Yisai Xue

Let $G$ be a graph. For a given positive integer $d$, let $f_G(d)$ denote the largest integer $t$ such that in every coloring of the edges of $G$ with two colors there is a monochromatic subgraph with minimum degree at least $d$ and order…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Yair Caro , Raphael Yuster

Chromatic polynomials have been studied extensively, giving us results such as the Fundamental Reduction Theorem and closed formulas for the chromatic polynomials of common classes of graphs. Though, none of those extend to the context of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-10-20 Pedro M. Recuero

In this work we show that, for any fixed d, random d-regular graphs asymptotically almost surely can be coloured with k colours, where k is the smallest integer satisfying d<2(k-1)log(k-1). From previous lower bounds due to Molloy and Reed,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-12-17 Graeme Kemkes , Xavier Pérez-Giménez , Nicholas Wormald

The chromatic polynomial $\pi_{G}(k)$ of a graph $G$ can be viewed as counting the number of vertices in a family of coloring graphs $\mathcal C_k(G)$ associated with (proper) $k$-colorings of $G$ as a function of the number of colors $k$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-06 Shamil Asgarli , Sara Krehbiel , Howard W. Levinson , Heather M. Russell

The $c$-strong chromatic number of a hypergraph is the smallest number of colours needed to colour its vertices so that every edge sees at least $c$ colours or is rainbow. We show that every $t$-intersecting hypergraph has bounded $(t +…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-06-21 Kevin Hendrey , Freddie Illingworth , Nina Kamčev , Jane Tan

The acyclic chromatic index (or acyclic edge-chromatic number) of a graph is the least number of colors needed to properly color its edges so that none of its cycles has only two colors. We show that for a graph of max degree $\Delta$, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Lefteris Kirousis , John Livieratos , Alexandros Singh

The mutual-visibility chromatic number of a graph $G$ is the smallest number of colors needed to color the vertices of $G$ such that each color class is a mutual-visibility set. In this paper, we prove that determining the mutual-visibility…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-13 Saneesh Babu , Gabriele Di Stefano , Aparna Lakshmanan S

We investigate the list packing number of a graph, the least $k$ such that there are always $k$ disjoint proper list-colourings whenever we have lists all of size $k$ associated to the vertices. We are curious how the behaviour of the list…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-20 Stijn Cambie , Wouter Cames van Batenburg , Ewan Davies , Ross J. Kang

The chromatic number of a subset of Euclidean space is the minimal number of colors sufficient for coloring all points of this subset in such a way that any two points at the distance 1 have different colors. We give new upper bounds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-12 Roman Prosanov