A new upper bound for the chromatic number of a graph

Ingo Schiermeyer

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Defining sets in (proper) vertex colorings of the Cartesian product of a cycle with a complete graph

D. Ali Mojdeh (2006)

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In a given graph G = (V,E), a set of vertices S with an assignment of colors to them is said to be a defining set of the vertex coloring of G, if there exists a unique extension of the colors of S to a c ≥ χ(G) coloring of the vertices of G. A defining set with minimum cardinality is called a minimum defining set and its cardinality is the defining number, denoted by d(G,c). The d(G = Cₘ × Kₙ, χ(G)) has been studied. In this note we show that the exact value of defining number d(G =...

Graph colorings with local constraints - a survey

Zsolt Tuza (1997)

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We survey the literature on those variants of the chromatic number problem where not only a proper coloring has to be found (i.e., adjacent vertices must not receive the same color) but some further local restrictions are imposed on the color assignment. Mostly, the list colorings and the precoloring extensions are considered. In one of the most general formulations, a graph G = (V,E), sets L(v) of admissible colors, and natural numbers $c_{v}$ for the vertices v ∈ V are given, and the question...

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...

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...

Set colorings in perfect graphs

Ralucca Gera, Futaba Okamoto, Craig Rasmussen, Ping Zhang (2011)

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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 $v \in V (G)$ , 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 $χ_{s} (G)$ . We show that the decision variant of determining $χ_{s} (G)$ is NP-complete in the general case, and show that...

A Ramsey-style extension of a theorem of Erdős and Hajnal

Peter Komjáth (2001)

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If n, t are natural numbers, μ is an infinite cardinal, G is an n-chromatic graph of cardinality at most μ, then there is a graph X with $X \to (G) ¹_{μ}$ , |X| = μ⁺, such that every subgraph of X of cardinality < t is n-colorable.

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.

On the dominator colorings in trees

Houcine Boumediene Merouane, Mustapha Chellali (2012)

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In a graph G, a vertex is said to dominate itself and all its neighbors. A dominating set of a graph G is a subset of vertices that dominates every vertex of G. The domination number γ(G) is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set of G. A proper coloring of a graph G is a function from the set of vertices of the graph to a set of colors such that any two adjacent vertices have different colors. A dominator coloring of a graph G is a proper coloring such that every vertex of V dominates...

3-consecutive c-colorings of graphs

Csilla Bujtás, E. Sampathkumar, Zsolt Tuza, M.S. Subramanya, Charles Dominic (2010)

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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.

Domination in partitioned graphs

Zsolt Tuza, Preben Dahl Vestergaard (2002)

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Let V₁, V₂ be a partition of the vertex set in a graph G, and let $γ_{i}$ denote the least number of vertices needed in G to dominate $V_{i}$ . We prove that γ₁+γ₂ ≤ [4/5]|V(G)| for any graph without isolated vertices or edges, and that equality occurs precisely if G consists of disjoint 5-paths and edges between their centers. We also give upper and lower bounds on γ₁+γ₂ for graphs with minimum valency δ, and conjecture that γ₁+γ₂ ≤ [4/(δ+3)]|V(G)| for δ ≤ 5. As δ gets large, however, the largest...

The cobondage number of a graph

V.R. Kulli, B. Janakiram (1996)

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A set D of vertices in a graph G = (V,E) is a dominating set of G if every vertex in V-D is adjacent to some vertex in D. The domination number γ(G) of G is the minimum cardinality of a dominating set. We define the cobondage number $b_{c} (G)$ of G to be the minimum cardinality among the sets of edges X ⊆ P₂(V) - E, where P₂(V) = X ⊆ V:|X| = 2 such that γ(G+X) < γ(G). In this paper, the exact values of bc(G) for some standard graphs are found and some bounds are obtained. Also, a Nordhaus-Gaddum...