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The distinguishing number $D(\Gamma)$ of a graph $\Gamma$ is the least size of a partition of the vertices of $\Gamma$ such that no non-trivial automorphism of $\Gamma$ preserves this partition. We show that if the automorphism group of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-06-16 Mariusz Grech , Andrzej Kisielewicz

An ordered graph $G$ is a graph together with a specified linear ordering on the vertices, and its interval chromatic number is the minimum number of independent sets consisting of consecutive vertices that are needed to partition the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-02-18 Dana Neidinger , Douglas B. West

A graph $G$ is $D$-distinguishable if there is a labeling of its vertices with $D$ labels such that the only automorphism of $G$ which preserves the labeling is the identity. The distinguishing number of $G$ is the minimum value $D$ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-26 Calum Buchanan , Peter Dankelmann , Isabel Harris , Paul Horn , K. E. Perry , Emily Rivett-Carnac

We introduce a variant of the vertex-distinguishing edge coloring problem, where each edge is assigned a subset of colors. The label of a vertex is the union of the sets of colors on edges incident to it. In this paper we investigate the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2026-04-17 Nicolas Bousquet , Antoine Dailly , Eric Duchene , Hamamache Kheddouci , Aline Parreau

The distinguishing index $D'(\Gamma)$ of a graph $\Gamma$ is the least number $k$ such that $\Gamma$ has an edge-coloring with $k$ colors preserved only by the trivial automorphism. In this paper we prove that if the automorphism group of a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-07-21 Mariusz Grech , Andrzej Kisielewicz

An edge-locating coloring of a simple connected graph $G$ is a partition of its edge set into matchings such that the vertices of $G$ are distinguished by the distance to the matchings. The minimum number of the matchings of $G$ that admits…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-10-10 M. Korivand , D. A. Mojdeh , Edy Tri Baskoro , A. Erfanian

Let $\delta$ and $\Delta$ be the minimum and the maximum degree of the vertices of a simple connected graph $G$, respectively. The distinguishing index of a graph $G$, denoted by $D'(G)$, is the least number of labels in an edge labeling of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-17 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

For an edge-colored graph $G$, the minimum color degree of $G$ means the minimum number of colors on edges which are adjacent to each vertex of $G$. We prove that if $G$ is an edge-colored graph with minimum color degree at least $5$ then…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-01-12 Ruonan Li , Shinya Fujita , Guanghui Wang

The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has a vertex labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. The distinguishing stability, of a graph $G$ is denoted by…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-09-26 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

A distinguishing r-vertex-labelling (resp. r-edge-labelling) of an undirected graph G is a mapping $\lambda$ from the set of vertices (resp. the set of edges) of G to the set of labels {1,. .. , r} such that no non-trivial automorphism of G…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-05-18 Kahina Meslem , Eric Sopena

The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D'(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex labeling (edge labeling) with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. The neighbourhood corona of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-14 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

A vertex coloring of a graph $G$ is an assignment of colors to the vertices of $G$ such that every two adjacent vertices of $G$ have different colors. A coloring related property of a graphs is also an assignment of colors or labels to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-04 I. González Yero , D. Kuziak , A. Rondón Aguilar

For a given number of colors, $s$, the guessing number of a graph is the (base $s$) logarithm of the cardinality of the largest family of colorings of the vertex set of the graph such that the color of each vertex can be determined from the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-11 Jo Martin , Puck Rombach

We supply an upper bound on the distinguishing chromatic number of certain infinite graphs satisfying an adjacency property. Distinguishing proper $n$-colourings are generalized to the new notion of distinguishing homomorphisms. We prove…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-03 Anthony Bonato , Dejan Delic

A split graph is a graph whose vertex set can be partitioned into a clique and an independent set. A connected graph $G$ is said to be $t$-admissible if admits a spanning tree in which the distance between any two adjacent vertices of $G$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-11-05 Fernanda Couto , Diego Amaro Ferraz , Sulamita Klein

The distinguishing number of a graph G, denoted D(G), is the minimum number of colors such that there exists a coloring of the vertices of G where no nontrivial graph automorphism is color-preserving. In this paper, we show that the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Melody Chan

A vertex k-labeling of graph G is distinguishing if the only automorphism that preserves the labels of G is the identity map. The distinguishing number of G, D(G), is the smallest integer k for which G has a distinguishing k-labeling. In…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-06-13 V. Arvind , Christine T. Cheng , Nikhil R. Devanur

The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has a vertex labeling with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. In this paper we characterize all trees with radius at most three…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-11-29 Saeid Alikhani , Samaneh Soltani

The distinguishing number of a graph $G$ is a symmetry related graph invariant whose study started two decades ago. The distinguishing number $D(G)$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has a $d$-distinguishing coloring. A distinguishing…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Sylvain Gravier , Kahina Meslem , Simon Schmidt , Souad Slimani

The distinguishing number (index) $D(G)$ ($D'(G)$) of a graph $G$ is the least integer $d$ such that $G$ has an vertex labeling (edge labeling) with $d$ labels that is preserved only by a trivial automorphism. The strong product $G\boxtimes…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-07 Samaneh Soltani , Saeid Alikhani