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A {\em conflict-free coloring} of a graph {\em with respect to open} (resp., {\em closed}) {\em neighborhood} is a coloring of vertices such that for every vertex there is a color appearing exactly once in its open (resp., closed)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-10-11 Igor Fabrici , Borut Lužar , Simona Rindošová , Roman Soták

The problem of sampling edge-colorings of graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$ has received considerable attention and efficient algorithms are available when the number of colors is large enough with respect to $\Delta$. Vizing's theorem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lucas De Meyer , František Kardoš , Aurélie Lagoutte , Guillem Perarnau

We present a randomized algorithm that, given a constant $\epsilon > 0$, outputs a proper $(1+\epsilon)\Delta$-edge-coloring of an $m$-edge simple graph $G$ of maximum degree $\Delta \geq 1/\epsilon$ in $O(m)$ time with high probability.…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-02-10 Anton Bernshteyn , Abhishek Dhawan

The problem of computing induced subgraphs that satisfy some specified restrictions arises in various applications of graph algorithms and has been well studied. In this paper, we consider the following Balanced Connected Subgraph (shortly,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2018-09-25 Sujoy Bhore , Sourav Chakraborty , Satyabrata Jana , Joseph S. B. Mitchell , Supantha Pandit , Sasanka Roy

Let $\Delta(G)$ and $\chi'(G)$ be the maximum degree and chromatic index of a graph $G$, respectively. Appearing in different forms, Gupta\,(1967), Goldberg\,(1973), Andersen\,(1977), and Seymour\,(1979) made the following conjecture: Every…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-18 Guangming Jing

We study the problem of maximizing the number of full degree vertices in a spanning tree $T$ of a graph $G$; that is, the number of vertices whose degree in $T$ equals its degree in $G$. In cubic graphs, this problem is equivalent to…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-11-11 Sarah Acquaviva , Deepak Bal

A proper conflict-free colouring of a graph is a colouring of the vertices such that any two adjacent vertices receive different colours, and for every non-isolated vertex $v$, some colour appears exactly once on the neighbourhood of $v$.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-05-01 Chun-Hung Liu , Bruce Reed

Given a graph $G=(V,E)$, the problem of \gb{} is to find a sequence of nodes from $V$, called burning sequence, in order to burn the whole graph. This is a discrete-step process, in each step an unburned vertex is selected as an agent to…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2022-09-16 Rahul Kumar Gautam , Anjeneya Swami Kare , Durga Bhavani S

A tree $T$ in an edge-colored graph $H$ is called a \emph{monochromatic tree} if all the edges of $T$ have the same color. For $S\subseteq V(H)$, a \emph{monochromatic $S$-tree} in $H$ is a monochromatic tree of $H$ containing the vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-03-22 Xueliang Li , Di Wu

We consider the minimum spanning tree problem in a setting where information about the edge weights of the given graph is uncertain. Initially, for each edge $e$ of the graph only a set $A_e$, called an uncertainty area, that contains the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2008-02-21 Thomas Erlebach , Michael Hoffmann , Danny Krizanc , Matús Mihal'ák , Rajeev Raman

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

We study the multicolour discrepancy of spanning trees and Hamilton cycles in graphs. As our main result, we show that under very mild conditions, the $r$-colour spanning-tree discrepancy of a graph $G$ is equal, up to a constant, to the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-30 Lior Gishboliner , Michael Krivelevich , Peleg Michaeli

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

A $k$-edge-coloured graph is colour-balanced if each colour appears equally often. Resolving a conjecture of Pardey and Rautenbach, we show that any colour-balanced $k$-edge-coloured complete graph $K_{2kt}$ contains a perfect matching that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-13 Emma Hogan , Alex Scott , Dmitry Tsarev

In 2001, Brualdi and Hollingsworth proved that an edge-colored balanced complete bipartite graph Kn,n with a color set C = {1,2,3,..., 2n-1} has a heterochromatic spanning tree if the number of edges colored with colors in R is more than…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Kazuhiro Suzuki

Consider the following game. We are given a tree $T$ and two players (say) Alice and Bob who alternately colour an edge of a tree (using one of $k$ colours). If all edges of the tree get coloured, then Alice wins else Bob wins. Game…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-11 Akshay Singh , Sanjeev Saxena

Let $k \in \mathbb{N}$ and let $G$ be a simple graph with maximum degree $\Delta$. A $k$-colouring $\varphi$ of $G$ is an assignment of colours from $\{1,2,\ldots,k\}$ to the vertices of $G$. We call $\varphi$ proper if adjacent vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-04-16 Yuping Gao , Allan Lo , Songling Shan

In 2006, Suzuki, and Akbari & Alipour independently presented a necessary and sufficient condition for edge-colored graphs to have a heterochromatic spanning tree, where a heterochromatic spanning tree is a spanning tree whose edges have…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-08-10 Kazuhiro Suzuki

Given a graph $G$ and sets $\{\alpha_v~|~v \in V(G)\}$ and $\{\beta_v~|~v \in V(G)\}$ of non-negative integers, it is known that the decision problem whether $G$ contains a spanning tree $T$ such that $\alpha_v \le d_T (v) \le \beta_v $ for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-05-31 Christoph Brause , Jochen Harant , Florian Hörsch , Samuel Mohr

We consider coloring problems in the distributed message-passing setting. The previously-known deterministic algorithms for edge-coloring employed at least (2Delta - 1) colors, even though any graph admits an edge-coloring with Delta + 1…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2016-10-24 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin , Tzalik Maimon