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The closed neighborhood conflict-free chromatic number of a graph $G$, denoted by $\chi_{CN}(G)$, is the minimum number of colors required to color the vertices of $G$ such that for every vertex, there is a color that appears exactly once…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-03-10 Sriram Bhyravarapu , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , Rogers Mathew

This paper proves that if $G$ is a graph (parallel edges allowed) of maximum degree 3, then $\chi_c'(G) \leq 11/3$ provided that $G$ does not contain $H_1$ or $H_2$ as a subgraph, where $H_1$ and $H_2$ are obtained by subdividing one edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-09-29 Peyman Afshani , Mahsa Ghandehari , Mahya Ghandehari , Hamed Hatami , Ruzbeh Tusserkani , Xuding Zhu

For a graph $G$, let $\chi(G)$ and $\omega(G)$ respectively denote the chromatic number and clique number of $G$. We give an explicit structural description of ($P_5$,gem)-free graphs, and show that every such graph $G$ satisfies…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-07 M. Chudnovsky , T. Karthick , P. Maceli , Frederic Maffray

Graph colorings is a fundamental topic in graph theory that require an assignment of labels (or colors) to vertices or edges subject to various constraints. We focus on the harmonious coloring of a graph, which is a proper vertex coloring…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2021-06-02 Ruxandra Marinescu-Ghemeci , Camelia Obreja , Alexandru Popa

The chromatic number $\chi$ of a graph is bounded from below by its clique number $\omega,$ but it can be arbitrary large. Perfect graphs are defined by $\chi=\omega$ for all induced subgraphs. An interesting relaxation are $\chi$-bounded…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-05-12 Alexander Engström

The distinguishing index $D'(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least number of colors necessary to obtain an edge coloring of $G$ that is preserved only by the trivial automorphism. We show that if $G$ is a connected $\alpha$-regular graph for some…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-18 Marcin Stawiski , Trevor M. Wilson

The chromatic discrepancy of a graph $G$, denoted $\phi(G)$, is the least over all proper colourings $\sigma$ of $G$ of the greatest difference between the number of colours $|\sigma(V(H))|$ spanned by an induced subgraph $H$ of $G$ and its…

A \emph{long unichord} in a graph is an edge that is the unique chord of some cycle of length at least 5. A graph is \emph{long-unichord-free} if it does not contain any long-unichord. We prove a structure theorem for long-unichord-free…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-10-23 Lan Anh Pham , Nicolas Trotignon

The $\!{}\bmod k$ chromatic index of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors needed to color the edges of $G$ in a way that the subgraph spanned by the edges of each color has all degrees congruent to $1\!\!\pmod k$. Recently, the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-02-28 Fábio Botler , Lucas Colucci , Yoshiharu Kohayakawa

An odd graph is a finite graph all of whose vertices have odd degrees. Given graph $G$ is decomposable into $k$ odd subgraphs if its edge set can be partitioned into $k$ subsets each of which induces an odd subgraph of $G$. The minimum…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-09 Mirko Petruševski , Riste Škrekovski

A graceful k-coloring of a non-empty graph $G=(V,E)$ is a proper vertex coloring $f:V(G)\rightarrow\lbrace 1,2,...,k \rbrace$, $k\geq 2$, which induces a proper edge coloring $f^{*}:E(G)\rightarrow\lbrace 1, 2, . . . , k-1 \rbrace $ defined…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-30 D Laavanya , S Devi Yamini

We consider infinite graphs. The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colours in a vertex colouring of $G$ that is preserved only by the trivial automorphism. An analogous invariant for edge colourings is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-05-18 Wilfried Imrich , Rafał Kalinowski , Monika Pilśniak , Mohammad H. Shekarriz

Let $G$ be a graph whose each component has order at least 3. Let $s : E(G) \rightarrow \mathbb{Z}_k$ for some integer $k\geq 2$ be an improper edge coloring of $G$ (where adjacent edges may be assigned the same color). If the induced…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-09-26 Paniz Abedin , Saieed Akbari , Marc Demange , Tinaz Ekim

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

For a digraph $G$, let $f(G)$ be the maximum chromatic number of an acyclic subgraph of $G$. For an $n$-vertex digraph $G$ it is proved that $f(G) \ge n^{5/9-o(1)}s^{-14/9}$ where $s$ is the bipartite independence number of $G$, i.e., the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-29 Raphael Yuster

An edge labeling of a connected graph $G = (V, E)$ is said to be local antimagic if it is a bijection $f:E \to\{1,\ldots ,|E|\}$ such that for any pair of adjacent vertices $x$ and $y$, $f^+(x)\not= f^+(y)$, where the induced vertex label…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-07 Gee-Choon Lau , Jianxi Li , Ho-Kuen Ng , Wai-Chee Shiu

The arboricity of a graph G is the minimum number of colours needed to colour the edges of G so that every cycle gets at least two colours. Given a positive integer p, we define the generalized p-arboricity Arb_p(G) of a graph G as the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-08-09 Jaroslav Nesetril , Patrice Ossona De Mendez , Xuding Zhu

Given a non-trivial graph $G$, the minimum cardinality of a set of edges $F$ in $G$ such that $\chi'(G \setminus F)<\chi'(G)$ is called the chromatic edge stability index of $G$, denoted by $es_{\chi'}(G)$, and such a (smallest) set $F$ is…

The dichromatic number $\vec{\chi}(D)$ of a digraph $D=(V,A)$ is the minimum number of sets in a partition $V_1,\ldots{},V_k$ of $V$ into $k$ subsets so that the induced subdigraph $D[V_i]$ is acyclic for each $i\in [k]$. This is a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-26 Jørgen Bang-Jensen , Lucas Picasarri-Arrieta , Anders Yeo

{\emph A star edge-coloring} of a graph is a proper edge-coloring without bichromatic paths and cycles of length four. In this paper, we consider the list version of this coloring and prove that the list star chromatic index of every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-11 Borut Lužar , Martina Mockovčiaková , Roman Soták