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The famous Wegner's Planar Graph Conjecture asserts tight upper bounds on the chromatic number of the square $G^2$ of a planar graph $G$, depending on the maximum degree $\Delta(G)$ of $G$. The only case that the conjecture is resolved is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-17 Eun-Kyung Cho , Ilkyoo Choi , Bernard Lidický

An odd coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper vertex coloring $\varphi$ with the property that for each non-isolated vertex $v\in V(G)$, there exists a color $c$ such that the cardinality of $\varphi^{-1}(c)\cap N(v)$ is odd. The concept of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-19 S. Kitano

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

This paper extends the scenario of the Four Color Theorem in the following way. Let H(d,k) be the set of all k-uniform hypergraphs that can be (linearly) embedded into R^d. We investigate lower and upper bounds on the maximum (weak and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-12-01 Carl Georg Heise , Konstantinos Panagiotou , Oleg Pikhurko , Anusch Taraz

Given $D$ and $\gamma>0$, whenever $c>0$ is sufficiently small and $n$ sufficiently large, if $\mathcal{G}$ is a family of $D$-degenerate graphs of individual orders at most $n$, maximum degrees at most $\tfrac{cn}{\log n}$, and total…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-04-19 Peter Allen , Julia Böttcher , Jan Hladký , Diana Piguet

A graph is weakly perfect if its clique number and chromatic number are equal. We show that the enhanced power graph of a finite group $G$ is weakly perfect: its clique number and chromatic number are equal to the maximum order of an…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Peter J. Cameron , Veronica Phan

For a non-negative integer $k$, a vertex cut in a graph is $k$-degenerate if it induces a $k$-degenerate subgraph. We show that a graph of order $n$ at least $2k+2$ without a $k$-degenerate cut has the size at least…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-06 Thilo Hartel , Johannes Rauch , Dieter Rautenbach

Let $G$ be a graph and $f:V(G)\rightarrow \mathbb{N}$ be a function. An $f$-coloring of a graph $G$ is an edge coloring such that each color appears at each vertex $v\in V(G)$ at most $f (v)$ times. The minimum number of colors needed to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-20 S. Akbari , M. Chavooshi , M. Ghanbari , R. Manaviyat

A list assignment $L$ of a graph $G$ is a function that assigns to every vertex $v$ of $G$ a set $L(v)$ of colors. A proper coloring $\alpha$ of $G$ is called an $L$-coloring of $G$ if $\alpha(v)\in L(v)$ for every $v\in V(G)$. For a list…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-30 L. Sunil Chandran , Uttam K. Gupta , Dinabandhu Pradhan

A family of graphs is called degenerate if it contains at least one bipartite graph. In this paper, we investigate the spectral extremal problems for a degenerate family of graphs $\mathcal{F}$. By employing covering and independent…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-17 Jiadong Wu , Liying Kang , Zhenyu Ni

Let $G$ be a graph of girth $g$ and circumference $c.$ A vertex $v$ of $G$ is called weakly pancyclic if $v$ lies on an $\ell$-cycle for every integer $\ell$ with $g\le \ell\le c.$ We prove that if $G$ is a nonbipartite graph of order $n\ge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-23 Yurui Tang , Xingzhi Zhan

A graph G is (a:b)-colorable if there exists an assignment of b-element subsets of {1,...,a} to vertices of G such that sets assigned to adjacent vertices are disjoint. We show that every planar graph without cycles of length 4 or 5 is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-07-16 Zdeněk Dvořák , Xiaolan Hu

Thomassen proved that every planar graph $G$ on $n$ vertices has at least $2^{n/9}$ distinct $L$-colorings if $L$ is a 5-list-assignment for $G$ and at least $2^{n/10000}$ distinct $L$-colorings if $L$ is a 3-list-assignment for $G$ and $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-02-16 Tom Kelly , Luke Postle

A \emph{proper $t$-edge-coloring} of a graph $G$ is a mapping $\alpha: E(G)\rightarrow \{1,\ldots,t\}$ such that all colors are used, and $\alpha(e)\neq \alpha(e^{\prime})$ for every pair of adjacent edges $e,e^{\prime}\in E(G)$. If $\alpha…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-31 Petros A. Petrosyan , Hrant H. Khachatrian

A weak deletion sequence is a sequence $(G_1,\ldots,G_n)$ of graphs so that for each $i\in[n-1]$ either $G_i$ is isomorphic to a subgraph of $G_{i+1}$, or vice versa: $G_{i+1}$ is isomorphic to a subgraph of $G_i$. We prove that determining…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-09 Johannes Carmesin , Will J. Turner

A tree-coloring of a maximal planar graph is a proper vertex $4$-coloring such that every bichromatic subgraph, induced by this coloring, is a tree. A maximal planar graph $G$ is tree-colorable if $G$ has a tree-coloring. In this article,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-03-21 Enqiang Zhu , Zepeng Li , Zehui Shao , Jin Xu

A graph is (m,k)-colourable if its vertices can be coloured with m colours such that the maximum degree of the subgraph induced on the set of all vertices receiving the same colour is at most k. The k-defective chromatic number $\chi_k(G)$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-01-20 Nirmala Achuthan , N. R. Achuthan , G. Keady

Given a graph $G$, an injective edge-coloring of $G$ is a function $\psi:E(G) \rightarrow \mathbb N$ such that if $\psi(e) = \psi(e')$, then no third edge joins an endpoint of $e$ and an endpoint of $e'$. The injective chromatic index of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-08-31 Peter Bradshaw , Alexander Clow , Jingwei Xu

The equitable tree-coloring can formulate a structure decomposition problem on the communication network with some security considerations. Namely, an equitable tree-$k$-coloring of a graph is a vertex coloring using $k$ distinct colors…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-04-13 Xin Zhang , Bei Niu , Yan Li , Bi Li

The Alon-Tarsi number of a graph $ G $ is the smallest $ k $ such that there exists an orientation $ D $ of $ G $ with maximum outdegree $ k - 1 $ satisfying that the number of even Eulerian subgraphs is different from the number of odd…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Zhiguo Li , Zhentao Jiao , Zeling Shao