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We obtain the following new coloring results: * A 3-colorable graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree~$\Delta$ can be colored, in polynomial time, using $O((\Delta \log\Delta)^{1/3} \cdot\log{n})$ colors. This slightly improves an…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2016-08-31 Eran Halperin , Ram Nathaniel , Uri Zwick

We examine $t$-colourings of oriented graphs in which, for a fixed integer $k \geq 1$, vertices joined by a directed path of length at most $k$ must be assigned different colours. A homomorphism model that extends the ideas of Sherk for the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-22 Christopher Duffy , Gary MacGillivray , Éric Sopena

Graph colouring is a combinatorial optimisation problem with applications in several important domains, including sports scheduling, cartography, street map navigation, and timetabling. It is also of significant theoretical interest and a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Rhyd Lewis

A good deal of research has been done and published on coloring of the vertices of graphs for several years while studying of the excellent work of those maestros, we get inspire to work on the vertex coloring of graphs in case of a…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-09-16 Sabyasachi Mukhopadhyay , Paritosh Bhattacharya , B. B. Ghosh

An incidence of a graph $G$ is a pair $(v,e)$ where $v$ is a vertex of $G$ and $e$ an edge incident to $v$. Two incidences $(v,e)$ and $(w,f)$ are adjacent whenever $v = w$, or $e = f$, or $vw = e$ or $f$. The incidence coloring game [S.D.…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2013-06-04 Clément Charpentier , Eric Sopena

The maximum edge colouring problem considers the maximum colour assignment to edges of a graph under the condition that every vertex has at most a fixed number of distinct coloured edges incident on it. If that fixed number is $q$ we call…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-07-06 Zdeněk Dvořák , Abhiruk Lahiri

For a graph $G$ and a positive integer $k$, the $k$-Bell colour graph of $G$ is the graph whose vertices are the partitions of $V$ into at most $k$ independent sets, with two of these being adjacent if there exists a vertex $x$ such that…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-12-17 Stephen Finbow , Gary MacGillivray

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

We consider the graph $k$-colouring problem encoded as a set of polynomial equations in the standard way over $0/1$-valued variables. We prove that there are bounded-degree graphs that do not have legal $k$-colourings but for which the…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2023-06-02 Massimo Lauria , Jakob Nordström

This paper investigates the semi-streaming complexity of \textit{$k$-partial coloring}, a generalization of proper graph coloring. For $k \geq 1$, a $k$-partial coloring requires that each vertex $v$ in an $n$-node graph is assigned a color…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-02-24 Avinandan Das

We study the following question: Given are two $k$-colorings $\alpha$ and $\beta$ of a graph $G$ on $n$ vertices, and integer $\ell$. The question is whether $\alpha$ can be modified into $\beta$, by recoloring vertices one at a time, while…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2014-04-17 Paul Bonsma , Amer E. Mouawad

In contrast to the usual quantum systems which have at most a finite number of open spectral gaps if they are periodic in more than one direction, periodic quantum graphs may have gaps arbitrarily high in the spectrum. This property of…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2020-05-26 Pavel Exner , Ondřej Turek

The fastest known classical algorithm deciding the $k$-colorability of $n$-vertex graph requires running time $\Omega(2^n)$ for $k\ge 5$. In this work, we present an exponential-space quantum algorithm computing the chromatic number with…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2019-07-02 Kazuya Shimizu , Ryuhei Mori

A $k$-coloring of a graph $G=(V,E)$ is called semi-equitable if there exists a partition of its vertex set into independent subsets $V_1,\ldots,V_k$ in such a way that $|V_1| \notin \{\lceil |V|/k\rceil, \lfloor |V|/k \rfloor\}$ and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-11-06 H. Furmańczyk , M. Kubale

The design of a good algorithm to solve NP-hard combinatorial approximation problems requires specific domain knowledge about the problems and often needs a trial-and-error problem solving approach. Graph coloring is one of the essential…

Let $G$ be a simple undirected graph on $n$ vertices with maximum degree~$\Delta$. Brooks' Theorem states that $G$ has a $\Delta$-colouring unless~$G$ is a complete graph, or a cycle with an odd number of vertices. To recolour $G$ is to…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2015-01-26 Carl Feghali , Matthew Johnson , Daniël Paulusma

Many computational problems are unchanged under some symmetry operation. In classical machine learning, this can be reflected with the layer structure of the neural network. In quantum machine learning, the ansatz can be tuned to correspond…

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

Vertex coloring and multicoloring of graphs are a well known subject in graph theory, as well as their applications. In vertex multicoloring, each vertex is assigned some subset of a given set of colors. Here we propose a new kind of vertex…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-13 Tanja Vojković , Damir Vukičević , Vinko Zlatić

The paper considers the NP-hard graph vertex coloring problem, which differs from traditional problems in which it is required to color vertices with a given (or minimal) number of colors so that adjacent vertices have different colors. In…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2025-02-24 Adil Erzin , Roman Plotnikov , Georgii Zhukov