Given a graph G = (V,E) and a set Lv of admissible colors for each vertex v ∈ V (termed the list at v), a list coloring of G is a (proper) vertex coloring ϕ : V → S v2V Lv such that ϕ(v) ∈ Lv for all v ∈ V and ϕ(u) 6= ϕ(v) for all uv ∈ E. If such a ϕ exists, G is said to be list colorable. The choice number of G is the smallest natural number k for which G is list colorable whenever each list contains at least k colors. In this note we initiate the study of graphs in which the choice number equals the clique number or the chromatic number in every induced subgraph. We call them choice-ω-perfect and choice-χ-perfect graphs, respectively. The main result of the paper states that the square of every cycle is choice-χ-perfect.
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 is whether there can be chosen a subset C(v) ⊆ L(v) of cardinality $c_v$ for each vertex in such a way that the sets C(v),C(v') are disjoint for each pair v,v' of adjacent vertices. The particular case of constant |L(v)| with $c_v$ = 1 for all v ∈ V leads to the concept of choice number, a graph parameter showing unexpectedly different behavior compared to the chromatic number, despite these two invariants have nearly the same value for almost all graphs. To illustrate typical techniques, some of the proofs are sketched.
An infinite class of counterexamples is given to a conjecture of Dahme et al. [1] concerning the minimum size of a dominating vertex set that contains at least a prescribed proportion of the neighbors of each vertex not belonging to the set.
Gallai and Roy proved that a graph is k-colorable if and only if it has an orientation without directed paths of length k. We initiate the study of analogous characterizations for the existence of generalized graph colorings, where each color class induces a subgraph satisfying a given (hereditary) property. It is shown that a graph is partitionable into at most k independent sets and one induced matching if and only if it admits an orientation containing no subdigraph from a family of k+3 directed graphs.
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 possible value of (γ₁+γ₂)/|V(G)| is shown to grow with the order of (logδ)/(δ).
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An edge coloring of a plane graph G is facially proper if no two faceadjacent edges of G receive the same color. A facial (facially proper) parity edge coloring of a plane graph G is an (facially proper) edge coloring with the property that, for each color c and each face f of G, either an odd number of edges incident with f is colored with c, or color c does not occur on the edges of f. In this paper we deal with the following question: For which integers k does there exist a facial (facially proper) parity edge coloring of a plane graph G with exactly k colors?
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A K3-WORM coloring of a graph G is an assignment of colors to the vertices in such a way that the vertices of each K3-subgraph of G get precisely two colors. We study graphs G which admit at least one such coloring. We disprove a conjecture of Goddard et al. [Congr. Numer. 219 (2014) 161-173] by proving that for every integer k ≥ 3 there exists a K3-WORM-colorable graph in which the minimum number of colors is exactly k. There also exist K3-WORM colorable graphs which have a K3-WORM coloring with two colors and also with k colors but no coloring with any of 3, . . . , k − 1 colors. We also prove that it is NP-hard to determine the minimum number of colors, and NP-complete to decide k-colorability for every k ≥ 2 (and remains intractable even for graphs of maximum degree 9 if k = 3). On the other hand, we prove positive results for d-degenerate graphs with small d, also including planar graphs.
In a graph, by definition, the weight of a (proper) coloring with positive integers is the sum of the colors. The chromatic sum is the minimum weight, taken over all the proper colorings. The minimum number of colors in a coloring of minimum weight is the cost chromatic number or strength of the graph. We derive general upper bounds for the strength, in terms of a new parameter of representations by edge intersections of hypergraphs.
Zverovich [Discuss. Math. Graph Theory 23 (2003), 159-162.] has proved that the domination number and connected domination number are equal on all connected graphs without induced P₅ and C₅. Here we show (with an independent proof) that the following stronger result is also valid: Every P₅-free and C₅-free connected graph contains a minimum-size dominating set that induces a complete subgraph.
We consider the problem of the existence of uniquely partitionable planar graphs. We survey some recent results and we prove the nonexistence of uniquely (𝓓₁,𝓓₁)-partitionable planar graphs with respect to the property 𝓓₁ "to be a forest".
A color-bounded hypergraph is a hypergraph (set system) with vertex set X and edge set 𝓔 = {E₁,...,Eₘ}, together with integers $s_i$ and $t_i$ satisfying $1 ≤ s_i ≤ t_i ≤ |E_i|$ for each i = 1,...,m. A vertex coloring φ is proper if for every i, the number of colors occurring in edge $E_i$ satisfies $s_i ≤ |φ(E_i)| ≤ t_i$. The hypergraph ℋ is colorable if it admits at least one proper coloring. We consider hypergraphs ℋ over a "host graph", that means a graph G on the same vertex set X as ℋ, such that each $E_i$ induces a connected subgraph in G. In the current setting we fix a graph or multigraph G₀, and assume that the host graph G is obtained by some sequence of edge subdivisions, starting from G₀. The colorability problem is known to be NP-complete in general, and also when restricted to 3-uniform "mixed hypergraphs", i.e., color-bounded hypergraphs in which $|E_i| = 3$ and $1 ≤ s_i ≤ 2 ≤ t_i ≤ 3$ holds for all i ≤ m. We prove that for every fixed graph G₀ and natural number r, colorability is decidable in polynomial time over the class of r-uniform hypergraphs (and more generally of hypergraphs with $|E_i| ≤ r$ for all 1 ≤ i ≤ m) having a host graph G obtained from G₀ by edge subdivisions. Stronger bounds are derived for hypergraphs for which G₀ is a tree.
A graph G is hereditarily dominated by a class 𝓓 of connected graphs if each connected induced subgraph of G contains a dominating induced subgraph belonging to 𝓓. In this paper we characterize graphs hereditarily dominated by classes of complete bipartite graphs, stars, connected bipartite graphs, and complete k-partite graphs.
Let G = (V,E) be a graph, and k ≥ 1 an integer. A subgraph D is said to be k-dominating in G if every vertex of G-D is at distance at most k from some vertex of D. For a given class 𝓓 of graphs, Domₖ 𝓓 is the set of those graphs G in which every connected induced subgraph H has some k-dominating induced subgraph D ∈ 𝓓 which is also connected. In our notation, Dom𝓓 coincides with Dom₁𝓓. In this paper we prove that $Dom Dom 𝓓_u = Dom₂ 𝓓_u$ holds for $𝓓_u$ = {all connected graphs without induced $P_u$} (u ≥ 2). (In particular, 𝓓₂ = {K₁} and 𝓓₃ = {all complete graphs}.) Some negative examples are also given.
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 $(χ̅)_{3CC}(G)$ of colors in a 3-consecutive C-coloring of G, and characterize the structure of connected graphs with $(χ̅)_{3CC}(G) ≥ k$ for k = 3 and k = 4.
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