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By a graph we mean a finite undirected graph having multiple edges but no loops. Given a graph property $\mathcal{P}$, a $\mathcal{P}$-coloring of a graph $G$ with color set $C$ is a mapping $\f:V(G)\to C$ such that for each color $c\in C$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-08-30 Alexandr V. Kostochka , Thomas Schweser , Michael Stiebitz

For any connected graph $G$, let $P(G,m)$ and $P_{DP}(G,m)$ denote the chromatic polynomial and DP color function of $G$, respectively. It is known that $P_{DP}(G,m)\le P(G,m)$ holds for every positive integer $m$. Let $DP_\approx$ (resp.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-03-16 Meiqiao Zhang , Fengming Dong

The 2-distance coloring of a graph $G$ is equivalent to the proper coloring of its square graph $G^2$, it is a special distance labeling problem. DP-coloring (or "Correspondence coloring") was introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'ak and Postle in 2018,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-16 Ren Zhao

The chromatic polynomial of a graph $G$, denoted $P(G,m)$, is equal to the number of proper $m$-colorings of $G$. The list color function of graph $G$, denoted $P_{\ell}(G,m)$, is a list analogue of the chromatic polynomial that has been…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-04 Hemanshu Kaul , Akash Kumar , Jeffrey A. Mudrock , Patrick Rewers , Paul Shin , Khue To

DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring developed recently by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle. In this paper we introduce and study the fractional DP-chromatic number $\chi_{DP}^\ast(G)$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-04 Anton Bernshteyn , Alexandr Kostochka , Xuding Zhu

DP-coloring (also called correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring recently introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle. Several known bounds for the list chromatic number of a graph $G$, $\chi_\ell(G)$, also hold for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-03-28 Jeffrey A. Mudrock

DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring developed recently by Dvorak and Postle. We introduce and study $(i,j)$-defective DP-colorings of multigraphs. We concentrate on sparse multigraphs and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-10 Yifan Jing , Alexandr Kostochka , Fuhong Ma , Pongpat Sittitrai , Jingwei Xu

DP-coloring is a relatively new coloring concept by Dvo\v{r}\'ak and Postle and was introduced as an extension of list-colorings of (undirected) graphs. It transforms the problem of finding a list-coloring of a given graph $G$ with a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-12-27 Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Thomas Bellitto , Thomas Schweser , Michael Stiebitz

DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring developed recently by Dvo\v{r}\'ak and Postle. We introduce and study $(i,j)$-defective DP-colorings of simple graphs. Let $g_{DP}(i,j,n)$ be the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-19 Yifan Jing , Alexandr Kostochka , Fuhong Ma , Jingwei Xu

DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring introduced recently by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle. Many known upper bounds for the list-chromatic number extend to the DP-chromatic number, but not all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-02 Anton Bernshteyn , Alexandr Kostochka

Crew and Spirklt generalize Stanley's chromatic symmetric function to vertex-weighted graphs. One of the primary motivations for extending the chromatic symmetric function to vertex-weighted graphs is the existence of a deletion-contraction…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-08 Azzurra Ciliberti

We extend the definition of the chromatic symmetric function $X_G$ to include graphs $G$ with a vertex-weight function $w : V(G) \rightarrow \mathbb{N}$. We show how this provides the chromatic symmetric function with a natural…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-01-16 Logan Crew , Sophie Spirkl

In this paper we consider the following three coloring concepts for digraphs. First of all, the generalized coloring concept, in which the same colored vertices of a digraph induce a subdigraph that satisfies a given digraph property.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-23 Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta , Michael Stiebitz

The concept of DP-coloring of a graph is a generalization of list coloring introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2015. Multiple DP-coloring of graphs, as a generalization of multiple list coloring, was first studied by Bernshteyn,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Huan Zhou , Xuding Zhu

DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring introduced by Dvo\u{r}\'{a}k and Postle (2017). Recently, Huang et al. [https://doi.org/10.1016/j.amc.2019.124562] showed that planar graphs with…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-24 Jingran Qi , Danjun Huang , Weifan Wang , Stephen Finbow

A decomposition of a non-empty simple graph $G$ is a pair $[G,P]$, such that $P$ is a set of non-empty induced subgraphs of $G$, and every edge of $G$ belongs to exactly one subgraph in $P$. The chromatic index $\chi'([G,P])$ of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-29 Clemens Huemer , Dolores Lara , Christian Rubio-Montiel

DP-coloring (also known as correspondence coloring) is a generalization of list coloring introduced recently by Dvo\v{r}\'ak and Postle (2017). In this paper, we prove that every planar graph $G$ without $4$-cycles adjacent to $k$-cycles is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-08 Lily Chen , Runrun Liu , Gexin Yu , Ren Zhao , Xiangqian Zhou

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

For a hypergraph $\mathcal{H}$, the DP color function $P_{DP}(\mathcal{H},k)$ of $\mathcal{H}$ is an extension of the chromatic polynomial $P(\mathcal{H},k)$ with the property that $P_{DP}(\mathcal{H},k) \le P(\mathcal{H},k)$ for all…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-09 Ruiyi Cui , Liangxia Wan , Fengming Dong

An $n$-subdivision of a graph $G$ is a graph constructed by replacing a path of length $n$ instead of each edge of $G$ and an $m$-power of $G$ is a graph with the same vertices as $G$ and any two vertices of $G$ at distance at most $m$ are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-05-17 Mahsa Mozafari-Nia , Moharram N. Iradmusa