Set colorings in perfect graphs

Ralucca Gera; Futaba Okamoto; Craig Rasmussen; Ping Zhang

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Set vertex colorings and joins of graphs

Futaba Okamoto, Craig W. Rasmussen, Ping Zhang (2009)

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For a nontrivial connected graph $G$ , let $c V (G) \to ℕ$ be a vertex coloring of $G$ where adjacent vertices may be colored the same. For a vertex $v$ of $G$ , the neighborhood color set $NC (v)$ is the set of colors of the neighbors of $v$ . The coloring $c$ is called a set coloring if $NC (u) \neq NC (v)$ for every pair $u, v$ of adjacent vertices of $G$ . The minimum number of colors required of such a coloring is called the set chromatic number $χ_{s} (G)$ . A study is made of the set chromatic number of the join $G + H$ of two graphs $G$ and $H$ . Sharp lower...

$T$ -preserving homomorphisms of oriented graphs

Jaroslav Nešetřil, Eric Sopena, Laurence Vignal (1997)

Commentationes Mathematicae Universitatis Carolinae

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A homomorphism of an oriented graph $G = (V, A)$ to an oriented graph $G^{'} = (V^{'}, A^{'})$ is a mapping $ϕ$ from $V$ to $V^{'}$ such that $ϕ (u) ϕ (v)$ is an arc in $G^{'}$ whenever $u v$ is an arc in $G$ . A homomorphism of $G$ to $G^{'}$ is said to be $T$ -preserving for some oriented graph $T$ if for every connected subgraph $H$ of $G$ isomorphic to a subgraph of $T$ , $H$ is isomorphic to its homomorphic image in $G^{'}$ . The $T$ -preserving oriented chromatic number ${\vec{χ}}_{T} (G)$ of an oriented graph $G$ is the minimum number of vertices in an oriented graph $G^{'}$ such that there exists a $T$ -preserving...

Hajós' theorem for list colorings of hypergraphs

Claude Benzaken, Sylvain Gravier, Riste Skrekovski (2003)

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A well-known theorem of Hajós claims that every graph with chromathic number greater than k can be constructed from disjoint copies of the complete graph $K_{k + 1}$ by repeated application of three simple operations. This classical result has been extended in 1978 to colorings of hypergraphs by C. Benzaken and in 1996 to list-colorings of graphs by S. Gravier. In this note, we capture both variations to extend Hajós’ theorem to list-colorings of hypergraphs.

Upper bounds on the b-chromatic number and results for restricted graph classes

Mais Alkhateeb, Anja Kohl (2011)

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A b-coloring of a graph G by k colors is a proper vertex coloring such that every color class contains a color-dominating vertex, that is, a vertex having neighbors in all other k-1 color classes. The b-chromatic number $χ_{b} (G)$ is the maximum integer k for which G has a b-coloring by k colors. Moreover, the graph G is called b-continuous if G admits a b-coloring by k colors for all k satisfying $χ (G) \leq k \leq χ_{b} (G)$ . In this paper, we establish four general upper bounds on $χ_{b} (G)$ . We present results on the b-chromatic...

Radio antipodal colorings of graphs

Gary Chartrand, David Erwin, Ping Zhang (2002)

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A radio antipodal coloring of a connected graph $G$ with diameter $d$ is an assignment of positive integers to the vertices of $G$ , with $x \in V (G)$ assigned $c (x)$ , such that $d (u, v) + | c (u) - c (v) | \geq d$ for every two distinct vertices $u$ , $v$ of $G$ , where $d (u, v)$ is the distance between $u$ and $v$ in $G$ . The radio antipodal coloring number $a c (c)$ of a radio antipodal coloring $c$ of $G$ is the maximum color assigned to a vertex of $G$ . The radio antipodal chromatic number $a c (G)$ of $G$ is $min {a c (c)}$ over all radio antipodal colorings $c$ of $G$ . Radio antipodal chromatic numbers...

3-consecutive c-colorings of graphs

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A 3-consecutive C-coloring of a graph G = (V,E) is a mapping φ:V → ℕ such that every path on three vertices has at most two colors. We prove general estimates on the maximum number ${(χ ̅)}_{3 C C} (G)$ of colors in a 3-consecutive C-coloring of G, and characterize the structure of connected graphs with ${(χ ̅)}_{3 C C} (G) \geq k$ for k = 3 and k = 4.

A new upper bound for the chromatic number of a graph

Ingo Schiermeyer (2007)

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Let G be a graph of order n with clique number ω(G), chromatic number χ(G) and independence number α(G). We show that χ(G) ≤ [(n+ω+1-α)/2]. Moreover, χ(G) ≤ [(n+ω-α)/2], if either ω + α = n + 1 and G is not a split graph or α + ω = n - 1 and G contains no induced $K_{ω + 3} - C ₅$ .

Fall coloring of graphs I

Rangaswami Balakrishnan, T. Kavaskar (2010)

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A fall coloring of a graph G is a proper coloring of the vertex set of G such that every vertex of G is a color dominating vertex in G (that is, it has at least one neighbor in each of the other color classes). The fall coloring number $χ_{f} (G)$ of G is the minimum size of a fall color partition of G (when it exists). Trivially, for any graph G, $χ (G) \leq χ_{f} (G)$ . In this paper, we show the existence of an infinite family of graphs G with prescribed values for χ(G) and $χ_{f} (G)$ . We also obtain the smallest non-fall...