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A well-studied concept is that of the total chromatic number. A proper total colouring of a graph is a colouring of both vertices and edges so that every pair of adjacent vertices receive different colours, every pair of adjacent edges…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-09-14 Tom Coker , Karen Johannson

A \textit{star $k$-coloring} of a graph $G$ is a proper (vertex) $k$-coloring of $G$ such that the vertices on a path of length three receive at least three colors. Given a graph $G$, its \textit{star chromatic number}, denoted $\chi_s(G)$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-09-26 Ilkyoo Choi , Boram Park

We study the list chromatic number of the Cartesian product of a complete graph of order $n$ and a complete bipartite graph with partite sets of size $a$ and $b$, denoted $\chi_{\ell}(K_n \square K_{a,b})$. At the 2024 Sparse Graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-10 Hemanshu Kaul , Leonardo Marciaga , Jeffrey A. Mudrock

We study an extension to directed graphs of the parameter called the $b$-chromatic number of a graph in terms of acyclic vertex colorings: the dib-chromatic number. We give general bounds for this parameter. We also show some results about…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-10 Nahid Javier-Nol , Christian Rubio-Montiel , Ingrid Torres-Ramos

A Grundy k-coloring of a graph G, is a vertex k-coloring of G such that for each two colors i and j with i < j, every vertex of G colored by j has a neighbor with color i. The Grundy chromatic number (G), is the largest integer k for which…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-06-06 Ali Mansouri , Mohamed Salim Bouhlel

Let $G$ be a graph and $C$ a finite set of colours. A vertex colouring $f:V(G)\to C$ is complete provided that for any two distinct colours $c_1,c_2\in C$ there is $v_1v_2\in E(G)$ such that $f(v_i)=c_i$, $i=1,2$. The achromatic number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-16 Mirko Hornak

This paper studies the circular coloring of signed graphs. A signed graph is a graph with a signature that assigns a sign to each edge, either positive or negative. This paper studies circular coloring and a circular chromatic number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-01-14 Ebode Atangana Pie Desire

A graph is said to be {\it total-colored} if all the edges and vertices of the graph are colored. A path in a total-colored graph is a {\it total proper path} if $(i)$ any two adjacent edges on the path differ in color, $(ii)$ any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-05-09 Yingying Zhang , Xiaoyu Zhu

A graceful $l$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper vertex coloring with $l$ colors which induces a proper edge coloring with at most $l-1$ colors, where the color for an edge $ab$ is the absolute difference between the colors assigned to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-01 Laavanya D. , Devi Yamini S.

The Total coloring conjecture states that any simple graph G with maximum degree D can be totally colored with at most D+2 colors. In this paper, we have obtained the total chromatic number for some classes of Cayley graphs.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-09-19 Prajnanaswaroopa S , Geetha J , Somasundaram K

We say that a vertex-coloring of a graph is a proper k-distance domatic coloring if for each color, every vertex is within distance k from a vertex receiving that color. The maximum number of colors for which such a coloring exists is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-12-02 Alex Cameron , Jiasheng Yan

The problem of finding the minimum number of colors to color a graph properly without containing any bicolored copy of a fixed family of subgraphs has been widely studied. Most well-known examples are star coloring and acyclic coloring of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-11-09 Alaittin Kırtışoğlu , Lale Özkahya

A packing $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a partition of $V(G)$ into sets $V_1,\ldots,V_k$ such that for each $1\leq i\leq k$ the distance between any two distinct $x,y\in V_i$ is at least $i+1$. The packing chromatic number, $\chi_p(G)$, of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-03-31 József Balogh , Alexandr Kostochka , Xujun Liu

In this paper we consider a colouring version of the general position problem. The \emph{$\gp $-chromatic number} is the smallest number of colours needed to colour the vertices of the graph such that each colour class has the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-11 Ullas Chandran S. V. , Gabriele Di Stefano , Haritha S. , Elias John Thomas , James Tuite

In this short note, the purpose is to provide an upper bound for the b-chromatic number of Kneser graphs. Our bound improves the upper bound that was presented by Balakrishnan and Kavaskar in [b-coloring of Kneser graphs, Discrete Appl.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-18 Saeed Shaebani

Let $G$ be a connected undirected graph.~A vertex coloring $f$ of $G$ is an $N_i$-vertex coloring if for each vertex $x$ in $G$, the number of different colors assigned to $N_G(x)$ is at most $i$.~The $N_i$-chromatic number of $G$, denoted…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-08-22 Yangfan Yu , Yuefang Sun

The star chromatic index $\chi_s'(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors needed to properly color the edges of the graph so that no path or cycle of length four is bi-colored. We obtain a near-linear upper bound in terms of the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2015-03-17 Zdeněk Dvořák , Bojan Mohar , Robert Šámal

We show a method how to convert any graph into the binary number and vice versa. We derive upper bound for maximum number of graphs, that, have fixed number of vertices and can be colored with n colors (n is any given number). Proof for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Kamil Kulesza , Zbigniew Kotulski

A total dominator coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper coloring of $G$ in which each vertex of the graph is adjacent to every vertex of some color class. The total dominator chromatic number $\chi_d^t(G)$ of $G$ is the minimum number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-06-12 Adel P. Kazemi

A dynamic coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper coloring such that for every vertex $v\in V(G)$ of degree at least 2, the neighbors of $v$ receive at least 2 colors. In this paper we present some upper bounds for the dynamic chromatic number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2009-08-19 Meysam Alishahi