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We study a new variant of graph coloring by adding a connectivity constraint. A path in a vertex-colored graph is called conflict-free if there is a color that appears exactly once on its vertices. A connected graph $G$ is said to be…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-08-15 Sun-Yuan Hsieh , Hoang-Oanh Le , Van Bang Le , Sheng-Lung Peng

An incidence of a graph $G$ is a vertex-edge pair $(v,e)$ such that $v$ is incidence with $e$. A conflict-free incidence coloring of a graph is a coloring of the incidences in such a way that two incidences $(u,e)$ and $(v,f)$ get distinct…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Mengke Qi , Xin Zhang

The conflict-free closed neighborhood (CFCN$^*$) chromatic number of a graph $G = (V,E)$ is the smallest positive integer $k$ for which there exists a coloring of a subset of vertices using $k$ colors such that, for every vertex in $V$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Shiwali Gupta , Rogers Mathew

A path in an(a) edge(vertex)-colored graph is called \emph{a conflict-free path} if there exists a color used on only one of its edges(vertices). An(A) edge(vertex)-colored graph is called \emph{conflict-free (vertex-)connected} if there is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-20 Meng Ji , Xueliang Li , Xiaoyu Zhu

A path in a vertex-colored graph is called \emph{conflict free} if there is a color used on exactly one of its vertices. A vertex-colored graph is said to be \emph{conflict-free vertex-connected} if any two vertices of the graph are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-23 Xueliang Li , Yingying Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhu , Yaping Mao , Haixing Zhao

Conflict-free coloring is a kind of vertex coloring of hypergraphs requiring each hyperedge to have a color which appears only on one vertex. More generally, for a positive integer $k$ there are $k$-conflict-free colorings ($k$-CF-colorings…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-08-29 Zhen Cui , Ze-Chun Hu

A path in an(a) edge(vertex)-colored graph is called a conflict-free path if there exists a color used on only one of its edges(vertices). An(A) edge(vertex)-colored graph is called conflict-free (vertex-)connected if for each pair of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-11 Xueliang Li , Xiaoyu Zhu

An edge-colored graph $G$ is conflict-free connected if any two of its vertices are connected by a path, which contains a color used on exactly one of its edges. The conflict-free connection number of a connected graph $G$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-12-10 Jing Wang , Meng Ji

Given a hypergraph $H$, the conflict-free colouring problem is to colour vertices of $H$ using minimum colours so that each hyperedge in $H$ sees a unique colour. We present a polynomial time reduction from the conflict-free colouring…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-02 S. M. Dhannya , N. S. Narayanaswamy

Given a graph $G$ and a mapping $f:V(G) \to \mathbb{N}$, an $f$-list assignment of $G$ is a function that maps each $v \in V(G)$ to a set of at least $f(v)$ colors. For an $f$-list assignment $L$ of a graph $G$, a proper conflict-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-05 Masaki Kashima , Riste Škrekovski , Rongxing Xu

An edge-colored graph $G$ is \emph{conflict-free connected} if any two of its vertices are connected by a path, which contains a color used on exactly one of its edges. The \emph{conflict-free connection number} of a connected graph $G$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-05-09 Hong Chang , Trung Duy Doan , Zhong Huang , Stanislav Jendrol' , Xueliang Li , Ingo Schiermeyer

Given a hypergraph H = (V, E), a coloring of its vertices is said to be conflict-free if for every hyperedge S \in E there is at least one vertex in S whose color is distinct from the colors of all other vertices in S. The discrete interval…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-01 Panagiotis Cheilaris , Shakhar Smorodinsky

A path in a vertex-colored graph is called {\it conflict-free} if there is a color used on exactly one of its vertices. A vertex-colored graph is said to be {\it conflict-free vertex-connected} if any two vertices of the graph are connected…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-09-06 Zhenzhen Li , Baoyindureng Wu

The `Conflict-Free Open (Closed) Neighborhood coloring', abbreviated CFON (CFCN) coloring, of a graph $G$ using $r$ colors is a coloring of the vertices of $G$ such that every vertex sees some color exactly once in its open (closed)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-24 Sriram Bhyravarapu , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , Rogers Mathew

A proper vertex colouring of a graph $G$ is referred to as conflict-free if in the neighbourhood of every vertex some colour appears exactly once, while it is called $h$-conflict-free if there are at least $h$ such colours for each vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-20 Mateusz Kamyczura , Jakub Przybyło

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

An edge-colored graph $G$ is conflict-free connected if any two of its vertices are connected by a path which contains a color used on exactly one of its edges. The conflict-free connection number of a connected graph $G$, denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-12 Ran Gu , Xueliang Li

A path in an edge-colored graph is called \emph{conflict-free} if it contains at least one color used on exactly one of its edges. An edge-colored graph $G$ is \emph{conflict-free connected} if for any two distinct vertices of $G$, there is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-16 Bo Deng , Wenjing Li , Xueliang Li , Yaping Mao , Haixing Zhao

Let $G$ be a graph with maximum degree $\Delta$ and without isolated vertices. An edge colouring $c$ of $G$ is conflict-free if the closed neighbourhood of every edge includes a uniquely coloured element. The least number of colours…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-07 Mateusz Kamyczura , Mariusz Meszka , Jakub Przybyło

Let $H=(V,E)$ be a hypergraph. A {\em conflict-free} coloring of $H$ is an assignment of colors to $V$ such that in each hyperedge $e \in E$ there is at least one uniquely-colored vertex. This notion is an extension of the classical graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-01-18 Shakhar Smorodinsky