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Let $G$ be a graph and c a proper k-coloring of G, i.e. any two adjacent vertices u and v have different colors c(u) and c(v). A proper k-coloring is a b-coloring if there exists a vertex in every color class that contains all the colors in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-23 Magda Dettlaff , Hanna Furmańczyk , Iztok Peterin , Riana Roux , Radosław Ziemann

Reed conjectured that the chromatic number of any graph is closer to its clique number than to its maximum degree plus one. We consider a recolouring version of this conjecture, with respect to Kempe changes. Namely, we investigate the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-17 Lucas De Meyer , Clément Legrand-Duchesne , Jared León , Tim Planken , Youri Tamitegama

We prove that if $H$ is a subgraph of a complete multipartite graph $G$, then $H$ contains a connected component $H'$ satisfying $|E(H')||E(G)|\geq |E(H)|^2$. We use this to prove that every three-coloring of the edges of a complete graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-30 Sammy Luo

In this article we consider the relationship between vertex coloring and the immersion order. Specifically, a conjecture proposed by Abu-Khzam and Langston in 2003, which says that the complete graph with $t$ vertices can be immersed in any…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-03 Sylvia Vergara

A linear coloring of a graph is a proper coloring of the vertices of the graph so that each pair of color classes induce a union of disjoint paths. In this paper, we prove that for every connected graph with maximum degree at most three and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-06 Chun-Hung Liu , Gexin Yu

The graph reconstruction conjecture asserts that every simple graph on at least three vertices is uniquely determined by its deck of vertex-deleted subgraphs. In this expository article we survey the conjecture and present an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-21 Emilie Dufresne , Gabriela Jeronimo , Jenny Kenkel , Haydee Lindo , Nelly Villamizar

The Gr\"{o}tzsch Theorem states that every triangle-free planar graph admits a proper $3$-coloring. Among many of its generalizations, the one of Gr\"{u}nbaum and Aksenov, giving $3$-colorability of planar graphs with at most three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-13 Hoang La , Borut Lužar , Kenny Štorgel

A well-known special case of a conjecture attributed to Ryser states that k-partite intersecting hypergraphs have transversals of at most k-1 vertices. An equivalent form was formulated by Gy\'arf\'as: if the edges of a complete graph K are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-04-12 András Gyárfás , Zoltán Király

We propose the notion of a majority $k$-edge-coloring of a graph $G$, which is an edge-coloring of $G$ with $k$ colors such that, for every vertex $u$ of $G$, at most half the edges of $G$ incident with $u$ have the same color. We show the…

A (finite, undirected) graph is $(n,k)$-colourable if we can assign each vertex a $k$-subset of $\{1,2,\ldots,n\}$ so that adjacent vertices receive disjoint subsets. We consider the following problem: if a graph is $(n,k)$-colourable, then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-01-10 Jan van den Heuvel , Xinyi Xu

In a recent paper, Caro, Lauri, Mifsud, Yuster, and Zarb ask which parameters $r$ and $c$ admit the existence of an $r$-regular graph such that the neighborhood of each vertex induces exactly $c$ edges. They show that every $r$ with $c$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-22 Nathan S. Sheffield , Zoe Xi

An $r$-regular graph is an $r$-graph, if every odd set of vertices is connected to its complement by at least $r$ edges. Let $G$ and $H$ be $r$-graphs. An $H$-coloring of $G$ is a mapping $f\colon E(G) \to E(H)$ such that each $r$ adjacent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-05-16 Yulai Ma , Davide Mattiolo , Eckhard Steffen , Isaak H. Wolf

We study a Tur\'an-type problem on edge-colored complete graphs. We show that for any $r$ and $t$, any sufficiently large $r$-edge-colored complete graph on $n$ vertices with $\Omega(n^{2-1/tr^r})$ edges in each color contains a member from…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-16 Matt Bowen , Adriana Hansberg , Amanda Montejano , Alp Müyesser

We conjecture that every graph of minimum degree five with no separating triangles and drawn in the plane with one crossing is 4-colorable. In this paper, we use computer enumeration to show that this conjecture holds for all graphs with at…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-04-15 Zdeněk Dvořák , Bernard Lidický , Bojan Mohar

We consider extremal edge-coloring problems inspired by the theory of anti-Ramsey / rainbow coloring, and further by odd-colorings and conflict-free colorings. Let $G$ be a graph, and $F$ any given family of graphs. For every integer $n…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-27 Yair Caro , Zsolt Tuza

The Additive Coloring Problem is a variation of the Coloring Problem where labels of $\{1,\ldots,k\}$ are assigned to the vertices of a graph $G$ so that the sum of labels over the neighborhood of each vertex is a proper coloring of $G$.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Daniel Severin

Let $G=(V,E)$ be a graph. A (proper) $k$-edge-coloring is a coloring of the edges of $G$ such that any pair of edges sharing an endpoint receive distinct colors. A classical result of Vizing ensures that any simple graph $G$ admits a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-07 Nicolas Bousquet , Bastien Durain

We study network robustness under correlated failures modeled by colors, where each color represents a class of edges or vertices that may fail simultaneously. An edge-colored graph is said to be edge-color-avoiding $k$-edge-connected if it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-08 József Pintér , Kitti Varga

Let \mathcal{F}_k denote the family of 2-edge-colored complete graphs on 2k vertices in which one color forms either a clique of order k or two disjoint cliques of order k. Bollob\'as conjectured that for every \epsilon>0 and positive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2008-04-06 Jacob Fox , Benny Sudakov

We consider the following extension of the concept of adjacent strong edge colourings of graphs without isolated edges. Two distinct vertices which are at distant at most $r$ in a graph are called $r$-adjacent. The least number of colours…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-13 Jakub Przybyło