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3-consecutive c-colorings of graphs

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

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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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 ) k for k = 3 and k = 4.

Hajós' theorem for list colorings of hypergraphs

Claude Benzaken, Sylvain Gravier, Riste Skrekovski (2003)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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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.

Rainbow connection in graphs

Gary Chartrand, Garry L. Johns, Kathleen A. McKeon, Ping Zhang (2008)

Mathematica Bohemica

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Let G be a nontrivial connected graph on which is defined a coloring c E ( G ) { 1 , 2 , ... , k } , k , of the edges of G , where adjacent edges may be colored the same. A path P in G is a rainbow path if no two edges of P are colored the same. The graph G is rainbow-connected if G contains a rainbow u - v path for every two vertices u and v of G . The minimum k for which there exists such a k -edge coloring is the rainbow connection number r c ( G ) of G . If for every pair u , v of distinct vertices, G contains a rainbow u - v geodesic,...

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 ) k χ b ( G ) . In this paper, we establish four general upper bounds on χ b ( G ) . We present results on the b-chromatic...

Rainbow numbers for small stars with one edge added

Izolda Gorgol, Ewa Łazuka (2010)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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A subgraph of an edge-colored graph is rainbow if all of its edges have different colors. For a graph H and a positive integer n, the anti-Ramsey number f(n,H) is the maximum number of colors in an edge-coloring of Kₙ with no rainbow copy of H. The rainbow number rb(n,H) is the minimum number of colors such that any edge-coloring of Kₙ with rb(n,H) number of colors contains a rainbow copy of H. Certainly rb(n,H) = f(n,H) + 1. Anti-Ramsey numbers were introduced by Erdös et al. [5] and...

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 ) 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...

Radio antipodal colorings of graphs

Gary Chartrand, David Erwin, Ping Zhang (2002)

Mathematica Bohemica

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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 V ( G ) assigned c ( x ) , such that d ( u , v ) + | c ( u ) - c ( v ) | 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...

Radio k-colorings of paths

Gary Chartrand, Ladislav Nebeský, Ping Zhang (2004)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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For a connected graph G of diameter d and an integer k with 1 ≤ k ≤ d, a radio k-coloring of G is an assignment c of colors (positive integers) to the vertices of G such that d(u,v) + |c(u)- c(v)| ≥ 1 + k for every two distinct vertices u and v of G, where d(u,v) is the distance between u and v. The value rcₖ(c) of a radio k-coloring c of G is the maximum color assigned to a vertex of G. The radio k-chromatic number rcₖ(G) of G is the minimum value of rcₖ(c) taken over all radio k-colorings...

Kaleidoscopic Colorings of Graphs

Gary Chartrand, Sean English, Ping Zhang (2017)

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For an r-regular graph G, let c : E(G) → [k] = 1, 2, . . . , k, k ≥ 3, be an edge coloring of G, where every vertex of G is incident with at least one edge of each color. For a vertex v of G, the multiset-color cm(v) of v is defined as the ordered k-tuple (a1, a2, . . . , ak) or a1a2 … ak, where ai (1 ≤ i ≤ k) is the number of edges in G colored i that are incident with v. The edge coloring c is called k-kaleidoscopic if cm(u) ≠ cm(v) for every two distinct vertices u and v of G. A regular...

Localization of jumps of the point-distinguishing chromatic index of K n , n

Mirko Horňák, Roman Soták (1997)

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The point-distinguishing chromatic index of a graph represents the minimum number of colours in its edge colouring such that each vertex is distinguished by the set of colours of edges incident with it. Asymptotic information on jumps of the point-distinguishing chromatic index of K n , n is found.

Multicolor Ramsey numbers for paths and cycles

Tomasz Dzido (2005)

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For given graphs G₁,G₂,...,Gₖ, k ≥ 2, the multicolor Ramsey number R(G₁,G₂,...,Gₖ) is the smallest integer n such that if we arbitrarily color the edges of the complete graph on n vertices with k colors, then it is always a monochromatic copy of some G i , for 1 ≤ i ≤ k. We give a lower bound for k-color Ramsey number R(Cₘ,Cₘ,...,Cₘ), where m ≥ 8 is even and Cₘ is the cycle on m vertices. In addition, we provide exact values for Ramsey numbers R(P₃,Cₘ,Cₚ), where P₃ is the path on 3 vertices,...

Graph colorings with local constraints - a survey

Zsolt Tuza (1997)

Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory

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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...