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An adjacent vertex distinguishing coloring of a graph G is a proper edge coloring of G such that any pair of adjacent vertices are incident with distinct sets of colors. The minimum number of colors needed for an adjacent vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-08-14 Lianzhu Zhang , Weifan Wang , Ko-Wei Lih

Brooks' Theorem states that a connected graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta$ has chromatic number at most $\Delta$, unless $G$ is an odd cycle or a complete graph. A result of Johansson (1996) shows that if $G$ is triangle-free, then the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-25 Ararat Harutyunyan , Bojan Mohar

A proper total $k$-colouring of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is an assignment $c : V \cup E\to \{1,2,\ldots,k\}$ of colours to the edges and the vertices of $G$ such that no two adjacent edges or vertices and no edge and its end-vertices are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-08 Hervé Hocquard , Jakub Przybyło

For a set of nonnegative integers $c_1, \ldots, c_k$, a $(c_1, c_2,\ldots, c_k)$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a partition of $V(G)$ into $V_1, \ldots, V_k$ such that for every $i$, $1\le i\le k, G[V_i]$ has maximum degree at most $c_i$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-06-21 Heather Hoskins , Runrun Liu , Jennifer Vandenbussche , Gexin Yu

An edge-colouring of a graph is distinguishing, if the only automorphism which preserves the colouring is the identity. It has been conjectured that all but finitely many connected, finite, regular graphs admit a distinguishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-05-11 Florian Lehner , Monika Pilśniak , Marcin Stawiski

In this short note we prove that there is a constant $c$ such that every k-edge-coloring of the complete graph K_n with n > 2^{ck} contains a K_4 whose edges receive at most two colors. This improves on a result of Kostochka and Mubayi, and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-10-31 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

The reconfiguration graph $R_k(G)$ of the $k$-colourings of a graph $G$ has as vertex set the set of all possible $k$-colourings of $G$ and two colourings are adjacent if they differ on the colour of exactly one vertex. Cereceda conjectured…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-10-02 Eduard Eiben , Carl Feghali

Given two $r$-uniform hypergraphs $F$ and $H$, we say that $H$ has an $F$-covering if every vertex in $H$ is contained in a copy of $F$. Let $c_{i}(n,F)$ be the least integer such that every $n$-vertex $r$-graph $H$ with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-22 Yue Ma , Xinmin Hou , Zhi Yin

A proper coloring of a graph is \emph{conflict-free} if, for every non-isolated vertex, some color is used exactly once on its neighborhood. Caro, Petru\v{s}evski, and \v{S}krekovski proved that every graph $G$ has a proper conflict-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-16 Daniel W. Cranston , Chun-Hung Liu

A result of Gy\'arf\'as says that for every $3$-coloring of the edges of the complete graph $K_n$, there is a monochromatic component of order at least $\frac{n}{2}$, and this is best possible when $4$ divides $n$. Furthermore, for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-20 Deepak Bal , Louis DeBiasio

The chromatic threshold delta_chi(H) of a graph H is the infimum of d>0 such that there exists C=C(H,d) for which every H-free graph G with minimum degree at least d|G| satisfies chi(G)<C. We prove that delta_chi(H) \in {(r-3)/(r-2),…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Simon Griffiths , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa , Robert Morris

We show that for every $\eta>0$, there exists $n_0$ such that for every even $n$, $n\ge n_0$, and every graph $G$ with $(2+\eta)n$ vertices and minimum degree at least $(7/4+4\eta)n$, each colouring of the edges of $G$ with three colours…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-06 Tomasz Łuczak , Zahra Rahimi

The famous List Colouring Conjecture from the 1970s states that for every graph $G$ the chromatic index of $G$ is equal to its list chromatic index. In 1996 in a seminal paper, Kahn proved that the List Colouring Conjecture holds…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Marthe Bonamy , Michelle Delcourt , Richard Lang , Luke Postle

Amos et al. (Discrete Appl. Math. 181 (2015) 1-10) introduced the notion of the $k$-forcing number of graph for a positive integer $k$ as the generalization of the zero forcing number of a graph. The $k$-forcing number of a simple graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-07-07 Leihao Lu , Baoyindureng Wu , Zixing Tang

In 1965, Vizing proved that every planar graph $G$ with maximum degree $\Delta\geq 8$ is edge $\Delta$-colorable. It is also proved that every planar graph $G$ with maximum degree $\Delta=7$ is edge $\Delta$-colorable by Sanders and Zhao,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-02-25 Jieru Feng , Yuping Gao , Jianliang Wu

For integers $k>0$ and $0<r \leq \Delta$ (where $r \leq k$), a conditional $(k,r)$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper $k$-coloring of the vertices of $G$ such that every vertex $v$ of degree $d(v)$ in $G$ is adjacent to vertices with at…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-01-31 P. V. Subba Reddy , K. V. Iyer

An $acyclic$ edge coloring of a graph is a proper edge coloring such that there are no bichromatic cycles. The \emph{acyclic chromatic index} of a graph is the minimum number k such that there is an acyclic edge coloring using k colors and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-12-04 Manu Basavaraju , L. Sunil Chandran , Manoj Kummini

Erd\H{o}s and Simonovits asked the following question: For an integer $c\geq 2$ and a family of non-bipartite graphs $\mathcal{F}$, what is the infimum of $\alpha$ such that any $\mathcal{F}$-free $n$-vertex graph with $n$ large enough and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-12-30 Zilong Yan , Yuejian Peng , Xiaoli Yuan

A proper colouring of a graph $G$ is $\beta$-frugal if every colour appears at most $\beta$ times in the neighbourhood of each vertex. Let $\chi_\beta(G)$ denote the minimum number of colours needed for a $\beta$-frugal colouring of $G$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-30 Quentin Chuet

Let $\Gamma$ be an Abelian group and let $G$ be a simple graph. We say that $G$ is $\Gamma$-colorable if for some fixed orientation of $G$ and every edge labeling $\ell:E(G)\rightarrow \Gamma$, there exists a vertex coloring $c$ by the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-12-05 Bartłomiej Bosek , Jarosław Grytczuk , Grzegorz Gutowski , Oriol Serra , Mariusz Zając