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The set chromatic number of a graph

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

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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For a nontrivial connected graph G, let c: V(G)→ 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) ≠ 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 χₛ(G) of G. The set chromatic numbers of some well-known classes of graphs...

Vertex Colorings without Rainbow Subgraphs

Wayne Goddard, Honghai Xu (2016)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Given a coloring of the vertices of a graph G, we say a subgraph is rainbow if its vertices receive distinct colors. For a graph F, we define the F-upper chromatic number of G as the maximum number of colors that can be used to color the vertices of G such that there is no rainbow copy of F. We present some results on this parameter for certain graph classes. The focus is on the case that F is a star or triangle. For example, we show that the K3-upper chromatic number of any maximal...

The list Distinguishing Number Equals the Distinguishing Number for Interval Graphs

Poppy Immel, Paul S. Wenger (2017)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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A distinguishing coloring of a graph G is a coloring of the vertices so that every nontrivial automorphism of G maps some vertex to a vertex with a different color. The distinguishing number of G is the minimum k such that G has a distinguishing coloring where each vertex is assigned a color from {1, . . . , k}. A list assignment to G is an assignment L = {L(v)}v∈V (G) of lists of colors to the vertices of G. A distinguishing L-coloring of G is a distinguishing coloring of G where the...

Coloring subgraphs with restricted amounts of hues

Wayne Goddard, Robert Melville (2017)

Open Mathematics

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We consider vertex colorings where the number of colors given to specified subgraphs is restricted. In particular, given some fixed graph F and some fixed set A of positive integers, we consider (not necessarily proper) colorings of the vertices of a graph G such that, for every copy of F in G, the number of colors it receives is in A. This generalizes proper colorings, defective coloring, and no-rainbow coloring, inter alia. In this paper we focus on the case that A is a singleton set....

Coloring with no 2-colored P 4 's.

Albertson, Michael O., Chappell, Glenn G., Kierstead, H.A., Kündgen, André, Ramamurthi, Radhika (2004)

The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics [electronic only]

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Rainbow H -factors.

Yuster, Raphael (2006)

The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics [electronic only]

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Worm Colorings

Wayne Goddard, Kirsti Wash, Honghai Xu (2015)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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Given a coloring of the vertices, we say subgraph H is monochromatic if every vertex of H is assigned the same color, and rainbow if no pair of vertices of H are assigned the same color. Given a graph G and a graph F, we define an F-WORM coloring of G as a coloring of the vertices of G without a rainbow or monochromatic subgraph H isomorphic to F. We present some results on this concept especially as regards to the existence, complexity, and optimization within certain graph classes....

A Note on Neighbor Expanded Sum Distinguishing Index

Evelyne Flandrin, Hao Li, Antoni Marczyk, Jean-François Saclé, Mariusz Woźniak (2017)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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A total k-coloring of a graph G is a coloring of vertices and edges of G using colors of the set [k] = {1, . . . , k}. These colors can be used to distinguish the vertices of G. There are many possibilities of such a distinction. In this paper, we consider the sum of colors on incident edges and adjacent vertices.

Backbone colorings along stars and matchings in split graphs: their span is close to the chromatic number

Hajo Broersma, Bert Marchal, Daniel Paulusma, A.N.M. Salman (2009)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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We continue the study on backbone colorings, a variation on classical vertex colorings that was introduced at WG2003. Given a graph G = (V,E) and a spanning subgraph H of G (the backbone of G), a λ-backbone coloring for G and H is a proper vertex coloring V→ {1,2,...} of G in which the colors assigned to adjacent vertices in H differ by at least λ. The algorithmic and combinatorial properties of backbone colorings have been studied for various types of backbones in a number of papers....

Analogues of cliques for oriented coloring

William F. Klostermeyer, Gary MacGillivray (2004)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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We examine subgraphs of oriented graphs in the context of oriented coloring that are analogous to cliques in traditional vertex coloring. Bounds on the sizes of these subgraphs are given for planar, outerplanar, and series-parallel graphs. In particular, the main result of the paper is that a planar graph cannot contain an induced subgraph D with more than 36 vertices such that each pair of vertices in D are joined by a directed path of length at most two.