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The main goal of this paper is to formalize and explore a connection between chromatic properties of graphs with geometric representations and competitive analysis of on-line algorithms, which became apparent after the recent construction…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-12-30 Tomasz Krawczyk , Bartosz Walczak

An $i$-independent set is a vertex set whose pairwise distance is at least $i+1$. A proper (square) $k$-coloring of a graph $G$ is a partition of its vertex set into $k$ independent ($2$-independent) sets. A packing $(1^{j}, 2^k)$-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-02 Xujun Liu , Zihui Xu , Xin Zhang

For a proper vertex coloring $c$ of a graph $G$, let $\varphi_c(G)$ denote the maximum, over all induced subgraphs $H$ of $G$, the difference between the chromatic number $\chi(H)$ and the number of colors used by $c$ to color $H$. We…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2014-11-19 N. R. Aravind , Subrahmanyam Kalyanasundaram , R. B. Sandeep , Naveen Sivadasan

The star chromatic index of a graph $G$, denoted by $\chi'_{st}(G) $, is the minimum number of colors needed to properly color the edges of $G$ such that no path or cycle of length four is bi-colored. Casselgren et al. and Hou et al.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Xingxing Hu , Yunfang Tang

A proper coloring of a graph $G$ is said to be a strong odd coloring of $G$, if for every vertex $v$ and every color $c$, either $c$ appears on an odd number of vertices in the neighborhood of $v$ or $c$ is absent in the neighborhood of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-04 Arun J Manattu , Athira Vinay , Aparna Lakshmanan S

Consider a graph $G = (V, E)$ and, for each vertex $v \in V$, a subset $\Sigma(v)$ of neighbors of $v$. A $\Sigma$-coloring is a coloring of the elements of $V$ so that vertices appearing together in some $\Sigma(v)$ receive pairwise…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-09-26 Zdenek Dvorak , Louis Esperet

The problem of finding paths in temporal graphs has been recently considered due to its many applications. In this paper we consider a variant of the problem that, given a vertex-colored temporal graph, asks for a path whose vertices have…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2021-09-06 Riccardo Dondi , Mohammad Mehdi Hosseinzadeh

Some coloring algorithms gives an upper bound for the locating chromatic number of trees with all the vertices not in an end-path colored by only two colors. That means, a better coloring algorithm could be achieved by optimizing the number…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-11-18 Yusuf Hafidh , Edy Tri Baskoro

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

Petru\v{s}evski and \v{S}krekovski \cite{odd9} recently introduced the notion of an odd colouring of a graph: a proper vertex colouring of a graph $G$ is said to be \emph{odd} if for each non-isolated vertex $x \in V(G)$ there exists a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-03-20 Jan Petr , Julien Portier

A mixed graph contains (undirected) edges as well as (directed) arcs, thus generalizing undirected and directed graphs. A proper coloring $c$ of a mixed graph $G$ assigns a positive integer to each vertex such that $c(u)\neq c(v)$ for every…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Antonio Lauerbach , Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Marie Diana Sieper , Alexander Wolff

An injective edge-coloring $c$ of a graph $G$ is an edge-coloring such that if $e_1$, $e_2$, and $e_3$ are three consecutive edges in $G$ (they are consecutive if they form a path or a cycle of length three), then $e_1$ and $e_3$ receive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2020-09-01 Baya Ferdjallah , Samia Kerdjoudj , Andre Raspaud

A colouring of a hypergraph's vertices is polychromatic if every hyperedge contains at least one vertex of each colour; the polychromatic number is the maximum number of colours in such a colouring. Its dual, the cover-decomposition number,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-05-31 Béla Bollobás , David Pritchard , Thomas Rothvoß , Alex Scott

Let $G$ be a planar embedding with list-assignment $L$ and outer cycle $C$, and let $P$ be a path of length at most four on $C$, where each vertex of $G\setminus C$ has a list of size at least five and each vertex of $C\setminus P$ has a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-03-21 Joshua Nevin

A generalization of list-coloring, now known as DP-coloring, was recently introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle. Essentially, DP-coloring assigns an arbitrary matching between lists of colors at adjacent vertices, as opposed to only…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-21 Runrun Liu , Sarah Loeb , Martin Rolek , Yuxue Yin , Gexin Yu

A proper labelling of a graph $G$ is a pair $({\pi},c_{\pi})$ in which ${\pi}$ is an assignment of numeric labels to some elements of $G$, and $c_{\pi}$ is a colouring induced by ${\pi}$ through some mathematical function over the set of…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-07-06 C. A. Weffort-Santos , R. C. S. Schouery

In the first part of this paper, we consider weighted domination in the case where the vertices of the complete graph on~\(n\) vertices are equipped with independent and identically distributed (i.i.d.) weights. We use the probabilistic…

Probability · Mathematics 2023-01-16 Ghurumuruhan Ganesan

A single coloring channel is defined by a subset of letters it allows to pass through, while deleting all others. A sequence of coloring channels provides multiple views of the same transmitted letter sequence, forming a type of…

Information Theory · Computer Science 2026-04-10 Wenjun Yu , Moshe Schwartz

A colouring of a graph is "nonrepetitive" if for every path of even order, the sequence of colours on the first half of the path is different from the sequence of colours on the second half. We show that planar graphs have nonrepetitive…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-24 Vida Dujmović , Louis Esperet , Gwenaël Joret , Bartosz Walczak , David R. Wood

A majority coloring of a directed graph is a vertex-coloring in which every vertex has the same color as at most half of its out-neighbors. Kreutzer, Oum, Seymour, van der Zypen and Wood proved that every digraph has a majority 4-coloring…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-11-06 Michael Anastos , Ander Lamaison , Raphael Steiner , Tibor Szabó