scholarly journals Competitive Colorings of Oriented Graphs

10.37236/1611 ◽  
2000 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
H. A. Kierstead ◽  
W. T. Trotter
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
General Technique ◽  
Oriented Graphs ◽  
Game Chromatic Number ◽  
Closed Class

Nešetřil and Sopena introduced a concept of oriented game chromatic number and developed a general technique for bounding this parameter. In this paper, we combine their technique with concepts introduced by several authors in a series of papers on game chromatic number to show that for every positive integer $k$, there exists an integer $t$ so that if ${\cal C}$ is a topologically closed class of graphs and ${\cal C}$ does not contain a complete graph on $k$ vertices, then whenever $G$ is an orientation of a graph from ${\cal C}$, the oriented game chromatic number of $G$ is at most $t$. In particular, oriented planar graphs have bounded oriented game chromatic number. This answers a question raised by Nešetřil and Sopena. We also answer a second question raised by Nešetřil and Sopena by constructing a family of oriented graphs for which oriented game chromatic number is bounded but extended Go number is not.

k-Degenerate Graphs

1970 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 1082-1096 ◽  
Author(s):  
Don R. Lick ◽  
Arthur T. White
Keyword(s):  
Bipartite Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Complete Bipartite Graph ◽  
Natural Numbers ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Disconnected Graphs ◽  
Totally Disconnected

Graphs possessing a certain property are often characterized in terms of a type of configuration or subgraph which they cannot possess. For example, a graph is totally disconnected (or, has chromatic number one) if and only if it contains no lines; a graph is a forest (or, has point-arboricity one) if and only if it contains no cycles. Chartrand, Geller, and Hedetniemi [2] defined a graph to have property Pn if it contains no subgraph homeomorphic from the complete graph Kn+1 or the complete bipartite graphFor the first four natural numbers n, the graphs with property Pn are exactly the totally disconnected graphs, forests, outerplanar and planar graphs, respectively. This unification suggested the extension of many results known to hold for one of the above four classes of graphs to one or more of the remaining classes.

scholarly journals On the existence and non-existence of improper homomorphisms of oriented and $2$-edge-coloured graphs to reflexive targets

2021 ◽  
Vol vol. 23 no. 1 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Christopher Duffy ◽  
Sonja Linghui Shan
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Open Problem ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Oriented Graphs ◽  
Tree Width ◽  
Np Complete

We consider non-trivial homomorphisms to reflexive oriented graphs in which some pair of adjacent vertices have the same image. Using a notion of convexity for oriented graphs, we study those oriented graphs that do not admit such homomorphisms. We fully classify those oriented graphs with tree-width $2$ that do not admit such homomorphisms and show that it is NP-complete to decide if a graph admits an orientation that does not admit such homomorphisms. We prove analogous results for $2$-edge-coloured graphs. We apply our results on oriented graphs to provide a new tool in the study of chromatic number of orientations of planar graphs -- a long-standing open problem.

scholarly journals On $t$-Common List-Colorings

10.37236/6738 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hojin Choi ◽  
Young Soo Kwon
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Nonnegative Integer ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Four Color Theorem ◽  
List Colorings ◽  
List Chromatic Number ◽  
Positive Integers

In this paper, we introduce a new variation of list-colorings. For a graph $G$  and for a given nonnegative integer $t$, a $t$-common list assignment of $G$ is a mapping $L$ which assigns each vertex $v$ a set $L(v)$ of colors such that given set of $t$ colors belong to $L(v)$ for every $v\in V(G)$. The $t$-common list chromatic number of $G$ denoted by $ch_t(G)$ is defined as the minimum positive integer $k$ such that there exists an $L$-coloring of $G$ for every $t$-common list assignment $L$ of $G$, satisfying $|L(v)| \ge k$ for every vertex $v\in V(G)$. We show that for all positive integers $k, \ell$ with $2 \le k \le \ell$ and for any positive integers $i_1 , i_2, \ldots, i_{k-2}$ with $k \le i_{k-2} \le \cdots \le i_1 \le \ell$, there exists a graph $G$ such that $\chi(G)= k$, $ch(G) =  \ell$ and $ch_t(G) = i_t$ for every $t=1, \ldots, k-2$. Moreover, we consider the $t$-common list chromatic number of planar graphs. From the four color theorem and the result of Thomassen (1994), for any $t=1$ or $2$, the sharp upper bound of $t$-common list chromatic number of planar graphs is $4$ or $5$. Our first step on $t$-common list chromatic number of planar graphs is to find such a sharp upper bound. By constructing a planar graph $G$ such that $ch_1(G) =5$, we show that the sharp upper bound for $1$-common list chromatic number of planar graphs is $5$. The sharp upper bound of $2$-common list chromatic number of planar graphs is still open. We also suggest several questions related to $t$-common list chromatic number of planar graphs.

Adjacent Vertex-Distinguishing E-Total Coloring on the Multiple Join Graph of Complete Graph and Wheel

2013 ◽  
Vol 303-306 ◽  
pp. 1605-1608
Author(s):  
Mu Chun Li ◽  
Li Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Simple Graph ◽  
Total Coloring ◽  
Adjacent Vertex ◽  
Chromatic Numbers ◽  
Total Chromatic Number ◽  
Join Graph ◽  
Uv C

υυυLet G be a simple graph, k be a positive integer, f be a mapping from V(G)∪E(G) to {1,2,...,k} . If ∀uv∈E(G) , we have f(u)≠f(v) , f(u)≠f(uv),f(v)≠f(uv) , C(u)≠C(v), where C(u)={f(u)}∪{f(uv)|uv∈E(G)}. Then f is called the adjacent vertex distinguishing E-total coloring of G. The number is called the adjacent vertex –distinguishing E-total chromatic number of χSubscript text(G)=min{k|G has a k-AVDETC} . The adjacent vertex distinguishing E-total chromatic numbers of the multiple join graph of wheel and complete graph are obtained in this paper.

scholarly journals Relaxed game chromatic number of trees and outerplanar graphs

2004 ◽  
Vol 281 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 209-219 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wenjie He ◽  
Jiaojiao Wu ◽  
Xuding Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Outerplanar Graphs ◽  
Game Chromatic Number

r-Hued coloring of planar graphs without short cycles

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050034
Author(s):  
Yuehua Bu ◽  
Xiaofang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Minimum Integer

A [Formula: see text]-hued coloring of a graph [Formula: see text] is a proper [Formula: see text]-coloring [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] for any vertex [Formula: see text]. The [Formula: see text]-hued chromatic number of [Formula: see text], written [Formula: see text], is the minimum integer [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] has a [Formula: see text]-hued coloring. In this paper, we show that [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is a planar graph without [Formula: see text]-cycles or if [Formula: see text] is a planar graph without [Formula: see text]-cycles and no [Formula: see text]-cycle is intersect with [Formula: see text]-cycles, [Formula: see text], then [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text].

Minimal Decompositions of Complete Graphs into Subgraphs with Embeddability Properties

1969 ◽  
Vol 21 ◽  
pp. 992-1000 ◽  
Author(s):  
L. W. Beineke
Keyword(s):  
Projective Plane ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Complete Graphs ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Double Torus

Although the problem of finding the minimum number of planar graphs into which the complete graph can be decomposed remains partially unsolved, the corresponding problem can be solved for certain other surfaces. For three, the torus, the double-torus, and the projective plane, a single proof will be given to provide the solutions. The same questions will also be answered for bicomplete graphs.

scholarly journals Distinguishability of Locally Finite Trees

10.37236/947 ◽  
2007 ◽  
Vol 14 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark E. Watkins ◽  
Xiangqian Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Inverse Image ◽  
Vertex Coloring ◽  
Finite Tree ◽  
Locally Finite ◽  
Distinguishing Number ◽  
Nonidentity Element ◽  
Locally Countable ◽  
Proper Vertex

The distinguishing number $\Delta(X)$ of a graph $X$ is the least positive integer $n$ for which there exists a function $f:V(X)\to\{0,1,2,\cdots,n-1\}$ such that no nonidentity element of $\hbox{Aut}(X)$ fixes (setwise) every inverse image $f^{-1}(k)$, $k\in\{0,1,2,\cdots,n-1\}$. All infinite, locally finite trees without pendant vertices are shown to be 2-distinguishable. A proof is indicated that extends 2-distinguishability to locally countable trees without pendant vertices. It is shown that every infinite, locally finite tree $T$ with finite distinguishing number contains a finite subtree $J$ such that $\Delta(J)=\Delta(T)$. Analogous results are obtained for the distinguishing chromatic number, namely the least positive integer $n$ such that the function $f$ is also a proper vertex-coloring.

scholarly journals Consecutive Colouring of Oriented Graphs

2021 ◽  
Vol 76 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Marta Borowiecka-Olszewska ◽  
Ewa Drgas-Burchardt ◽  
Nahid Yelene Javier-Nol ◽  
Rita Zuazua
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Complete Graphs ◽  
Oriented Graphs ◽  
Complete Problem ◽  
Np Complete

AbstractWe consider arc colourings of oriented graphs such that for each vertex the colours of all out-arcs incident with the vertex and the colours of all in-arcs incident with the vertex form intervals. We prove that the existence of such a colouring is an NP-complete problem. We give the solution of the problem for r-regular oriented graphs, transitive tournaments, oriented graphs with small maximum degree, oriented graphs with small order and some other classes of oriented graphs. We state the conjecture that for each graph there exists a consecutive colourable orientation and confirm the conjecture for complete graphs, 2-degenerate graphs, planar graphs with girth at least 8, and bipartite graphs with arboricity at most two that include all planar bipartite graphs. Additionally, we prove that the conjecture is true for all perfect consecutively colourable graphs and for all forbidden graphs for the class of perfect consecutively colourable graphs.

A study on distance in graph complement

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050045
Author(s):  
A. Chellaram Malaravan ◽  
A. Wilson Baskar
Keyword(s):  
Positive Integer ◽  
Complete Graph ◽  
Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient Condition ◽  
Necessary And Sufficient

The aim of this paper is to determine radius and diameter of graph complements. We provide a necessary and sufficient condition for the complement of a graph to be connected, and determine the components of graph complement. Finally, we completely characterize the class of graphs [Formula: see text] for which the subgraph induced by central (respectively peripheral) vertices of its complement in [Formula: see text] is isomorphic to a complete graph [Formula: see text], for some positive integer [Formula: see text].

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