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We investigate the relationship between two kinds of vertex colorings of graphs: unique-maximum colorings and conflict-free colorings. In a unique-maximum coloring, the colors are ordered, and in every path of the graph the maximum color…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-12-17 Panagiotis Cheilaris , Geza Toth

A \textit{rainbow subgraph} of an edge-colored graph is a subgraph whose edges have distinct colors. The \textit{color degree} of a vertex $v$ is the number of different colors on edges incident to $v$. We show that if $n$ is large enough…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-17 Alexandr Kostochka , Florian Pfender , Matthew Yancey

Drawings of non-planar graphs always result in edge crossings. When there are many edges crossing at small angles, it is often difficult to follow these edges, because of the multiple visual paths resulted from the crossings that slow down…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-09-02 Yifan Hu , Lei Shi

We study a variation of the graph colouring problem on random graphs of finite average connectivity. Given the number of colours, we aim to maximise the number of different colours at neighbouring vertices (i.e. one edge distance) of any…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2009-11-11 S. Bounkong , J. van Mourik , D. Saad

Rainbow coloring is a special case of edge coloring, where there must be at least one path between every distinct pair of vertices that consists of different color edges. Here, we may use the same color for the adjacent edges of a graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-01-01 Debasis Dwibedy , Rakesh Mohanty , Arun Khamari

A path in an edge-colored graph, where adjacent edges may be colored the same, is a rainbow path if no two edges of it are colored the same. A nontrivial connected graph $G$ is rainbow connected if there is a rainbow path connecting any two…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-12-12 Xueliang Li , Yuefang Sun , Yan Zhao

A path in an edge colored graph is said to be a rainbow path if no two edges on the path have the same color. An edge colored graph is (strongly) rainbow connected if there exists a (geodesic) rainbow path between every pair of vertices.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2011-10-10 Prabhanjan Ananth , Meghana Nasre , Kanthi K Sarpatwar

An edge-colored graph $G$ is rainbow connected, if any two vertices are connected by a path whose edges have distinct colors. The rainbow connection number of a connected graph $G$, denoted $rc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that are…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2011-10-27 Xueliang Li , Mengmeng Liu , Ingo Schiermeyer

An edge-coloured path is \emph{rainbow} if all the edges have distinct colours. For a connected graph $G$, the \emph{rainbow connection number} $rc(G)$ is the minimum number of colours in an edge-colouring of $G$ such that, any two vertices…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-04-21 Lin Chen , Xueliang Li , Henry Liu , Jinfeng Liu

A separating system of a graph $G$ is a family $\mathcal{S}$ of subgraphs of $G$ for which the following holds: for all distinct edges $e$ and $f$ of $G$, there exists an element in $\mathcal{S}$ that contains $e$ but not $f$. Recently, it…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-07-03 Fábio Botler , Tássio Naia

The packing coloring problem has diverse applications, including frequency assignment in wireless networks, resource distribution and facility location in smart cities and post-disaster management, as well as in biological diversity.…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Hanna Furmańczyk , Didem Gözüpek , Sibel Özkan

A path in an edge-colored graph is called {\em rainbow} if no two edges of it are colored the same. For an $\ell$-connected graph $G$ and an integer $k$ with $1\leq k\leq \ell$, the {\em rainbow $k$-connection number} $rc_k(G)$ of $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2012-04-12 Xueliang Li , Sujuan Liu

A path in an edge colored graph is said to be a rainbow path if no two edges on the path have the same color. An edge colored graph is (strongly) rainbow connected if there exists a (geodesic) rainbow path between every pair of vertices.…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2011-04-13 Prabhanjan Ananth , Meghana Nasre

The coloring problem is studied in the paper for graph classes defined by two small forbidden induced subgraphs. We prove some sufficient conditions for effective solvability of the problem in such classes. As their corollary we determine…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-07-02 Dmitriy Malyshev

The asymmetric coloring number of a graph is the minimum number of colors needed to color its vertices, so that no non-trivial automorphism preserves the color classes. We investigate the asymmetric coloring number of graphs that are…

Let $G$ be an edge-colored graph. The color degree of a vertex $v$ of $G$, is defined as the number of colors of the edges incident to $v$. The color number of $G$ is defined as the number of colors of the edges in $G$. A rainbow triangle…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-06-27 Binlong Li , Bo Ning , Chuandong Xu , Shenggui Zhang

We answer a question of Gy\'arf\'as and S\'ark\"ozy from 2013 by showing that every 2-edge-coloured complete 3-uniform hypergraph can be partitioned into two monochromatic tight paths of different colours. We also give a lower bound for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-01-27 Maya Stein

We consider the maximum chromatic number of hypergraphs consisting of cliques that have pairwise small intersections. Designs of the appropriate parameters produce optimal constructions, but these are known to exist only when the number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-04-12 Dhruv Mubayi , Jacques Verstraete

A coloring is distinguishing (or symmetry breaking) if no non-identity automorphism preserves it. The distinguishing threshold of a graph $G$, denoted by $\theta(G)$, is the minimum number of colors $k$ so that every $k$-coloring of $G$ is…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-12-19 Saeid Alikhani , Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz

For a given class $\mathcal{C}$ of graphs and given integers $m \leq n$, let $f_\mathcal{C}(n,m)$ be the minimal number $k$ such that every $k$ independent $n$-sets in any graph belonging to $\mathcal{C}$ have a (possibly partial) rainbow…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-10-01 Ron Aharoni , Joseph Briggs , Jinha Kim , Minki Kim