scholarly journals The Guessing Number of Undirected Graphs

10.37236/679 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Demetres Christofides ◽  
Klas Markström
Keyword(s):  
Network Coding ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Perfect Graphs ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Undirected Graphs ◽  
Fractional Chromatic Number ◽  
Winning Probability ◽  
Optimal Bounds

Riis [Electron. J. Combin., 14(1):R44, 2007] introduced a guessing game for graphs which is equivalent to finding protocols for network coding. In this paper we prove upper and lower bounds for the winning probability of the guessing game on undirected graphs. We find optimal bounds for perfect graphs and minimally imperfect graphs, and present a conjecture relating the exact value for all graphs to the fractional chromatic number.

2-Distance chromatic number of some graph products

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050021
Author(s):  
Ghazale Ghazi ◽  
Freydoon Rahbarnia ◽  
Mostafa Tavakoli
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Graph Products ◽  
Lexicographic Product ◽  
Graph Product ◽  
Minimum Number

This paper studies the 2-distance chromatic number of some graph product. A coloring of [Formula: see text] is 2-distance if any two vertices at distance at most two from each other get different colors. The minimum number of colors in the 2-distance coloring of [Formula: see text] is the 2-distance chromatic number and denoted by [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we obtain some upper and lower bounds for the 2-distance chromatic number of the rooted product, generalized rooted product, hierarchical product and we determine exact value for the 2-distance chromatic number of the lexicographic product.

scholarly journals A Note on the Warmth of Random Graphs with Given Expected Degrees

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilun Shang
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Random Graph ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Random Graphs ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Degree Sequence ◽  
Graph Model ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Random Graph Model

We consider the random graph modelG(w)for a given expected degree sequencew=(w1,w2,…,wn). Warmth, introduced by Brightwell and Winkler in the context of combinatorial statistical mechanics, is a graph parameter related to lower bounds of chromatic number. We present new upper and lower bounds on warmth ofG(w). In particular, the minimum expected degree turns out to be an upper bound of warmth when it tends to infinity and the maximum expected degreem=O(nα)with0<α<1/2.

scholarly journals Locating Chromatic Number of Powers of Paths and Cycles

Symmetry ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 11 (3) ◽  
pp. 389
Author(s):  
Manal Ghanem ◽  
Hasan Al-Ezeh ◽  
Ala’a Dabbour
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Minimum Distance ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Color Code ◽  
Partition Class ◽  
Distinct Color

Let c be a proper k-coloring of a graph G. Let π = { R 1 , R 2 , … , R k } be the partition of V ( G ) induced by c, where R i is the partition class receiving color i. The color code c π ( v ) of a vertex v of G is the ordered k-tuple ( d ( v , R 1 ) , d ( v , R 2 ) , … , d ( v , R k ) ) , where d ( v , R i ) is the minimum distance from v to each other vertex u ∈ R i for 1 ≤ i ≤ k . If all vertices of G have distinct color codes, then c is called a locating k-coloring of G. The locating-chromatic number of G, denoted by χ L ( G ) , is the smallest k such that G admits a locating coloring with k colors. In this paper, we give a characterization of the locating chromatic number of powers of paths. In addition, we find sharp upper and lower bounds for the locating chromatic number of powers of cycles.

scholarly journals Coloring Chains for Compression with Uncertain Priors

10.37236/6468 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Noah Golowich
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Graph Coloring ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Nice Property ◽  
Chromatic Numbers ◽  
Compression Scheme ◽  
Graph Coloring Problem ◽  
Close Relationship ◽  
Local Graph

Haramaty and Sudan considered the problem of transmitting a message between two people, Alice and Bob, when Alice's and Bob's priors on the message are allowed to differ by at most a given factor. To find a deterministic compression scheme for this problem, they showed that it is sufficient to obtain an upper bound on the chromatic number of a graph, denoted $U(N,s,k)$ for parameters $N,s,k$, whose vertices are nested sequences of subsets and whose edges are between vertices that have similar sequences of sets. In turn, there is a close relationship between the problem of determining the chromatic number of $U(N,s,k)$ and a local graph coloring problem considered by Erdős et al. We generalize the results of Erdős et al. by finding bounds on the chromatic numbers of graphs $H$ and $G$ when there is a homomorphism $\phi :H\rightarrow G$ that satisfies a nice property. We then use these results to improve upper and lower bounds on $\chi(U(N,s,k))$. 

scholarly journals Distributed algebraic connectivity estimation for undirected graphs with upper and lower bounds

Automatica ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (12) ◽  
pp. 3253-3259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosario Aragues ◽  
Guodong Shi ◽  
Dimos V. Dimarogonas ◽  
Carlos Sagüés ◽  
Karl Henrik Johansson ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Algebraic Connectivity ◽  
Undirected Graphs

scholarly journals Colouring the Square of the Cartesian Product of Trees

2011 ◽  
Vol Vol. 13 no. 2 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Cartesian Product ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
International Audience

Graphs and Algorithms International audience We prove upper and lower bounds on the chromatic number of the square of the cartesian product of trees. The bounds are equal if each tree has even maximum degree.

scholarly journals Regularity and projective dimension of powers of edge ideal of the disjoint union of some weighted oriented gap-free bipartite graphs

2019 ◽  
Vol 19 (12) ◽  
pp. 2050233 ◽  
Author(s):  
Guangjun Zhu ◽  
Li Xu ◽  
Hong Wang ◽  
Jiaqi Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Disjoint Union ◽  
Projective Dimension ◽  
Exact Formula ◽  
Bipartite Graphs ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Edge Ideal ◽  
Undirected Graphs

In this paper, we provide some precise formulas for regularity of powers of edge ideal of the disjoint union of some weighted oriented gap-free bipartite graphs. For the projective dimension of such an edge ideal, we give its exact formula. Meanwhile, we also give the upper and lower bounds of projective dimension of higher powers of such an edge ideal. As an application, we present regularity and projective dimension of powers of edge ideal of some gap-free bipartite undirected graphs. Some examples show that these formulas are related to direction selection.

scholarly journals Game Colouring Directed Graphs

10.37236/283 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daqing Yang ◽  
Xuding Zhu
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Directed Graphs ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Outerplanar Graph ◽  
Game Chromatic Number

In this paper, a colouring game and two versions of marking games (the weak and the strong) on digraphs are studied. We introduce the weak game chromatic number $\chi_{\rm wg}(D)$ and the weak game colouring number ${\rm wgcol}(D)$ of digraphs $D$. It is proved that if $D$ is an oriented planar graph, then $\chi_{\rm wg}(D)$ $\le {\rm wgcol}(D) \le 9$, and if $D$ is an oriented outerplanar graph, then $\chi_{\rm wg}(D)$ $\le {\rm wgcol}(D) \le 4$. Then we study the strong game colouring number ${\rm sgcol}\left( D \right)$ (which was first introduced by Andres as game colouring number) of digraphs $D$. It is proved that if $D$ is an oriented planar graph, then ${\rm sgcol}\left( D \right) \le 16$. The asymmetric versions of the colouring and marking games of digraphs are also studied. Upper and lower bounds of related parameters for various classes of digraphs are obtained.

scholarly journals Anagram-Free Graph Colouring

10.37236/6267 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tim E. Wilson ◽  
David R. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Empty Word ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Graph Colouring ◽  
Free Graph ◽  
Random Structures ◽  
Edge Colouring

An anagram is a word of the form $WP$ where $W$ is a non-empty word and $P$ is a permutation of $W$. We study anagram-free graph colouring and give bounds on the chromatic number. Alon et al.[Random Structures & Algorithms 2002] asked whether anagram-free chromatic number is bounded by a function of the maximum degree. We answer  this question in the negative by constructing graphs with maximum degree 3 and unbounded anagram-free chromatic number. We also prove upper and lower bounds on the anagram-free chromatic number of trees in terms of their radius and pathwidth. Finally, we explore extensions to edge colouring and $k$-anagram-free colouring.

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