Conflict‐free chromatic number versus conflict‐free chromatic index

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michał Dębski ◽  
Jakub Przybyło
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Chromatic Index

scholarly journals Star multigraphs with three vertices of maximum degree

1986 ◽  
Vol 100 (2) ◽  
pp. 303-317 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. G. Chetwynd ◽  
A. J. W. Hilton
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Special Kind ◽  
Chromatic Index ◽  
Simple Graphs ◽  
Multiple Edges ◽  
Image Position ◽  
Edge Colouring

The graphs we consider here are either simple graphs, that is they have no loops or multiple edges, or are multigraphs, that is they may have more than one edge joining a pair of vertices, but again have no loops. In particular we shall consider a special kind of multigraph, called a star-multigraph: this is a multigraph which contains a vertex v*, called the star-centre, which is incident with each non-simple edge. An edge-colouring of a multigraph G is a map ø: E(G)→, where is a set of colours and E(G) is the set of edges of G, such that no two edges receiving the same colour have a vertex in common. The chromatic index, or edge-chromatic numberχ′(G) of G is the least value of || for which an edge-colouring of G exists. Generalizing a well-known theorem of Vizing [14], we showed in [6] that, for a star-multigraph G,where Δ(G) denotes the maximum degree (that is, the maximum number of edges incident with a vertex) of G. Star-multigraphs for which χ′(G) = Δ(G) are said to be Class 1, and otherwise they are Class 2.

A General Upper Bound on the List Chromatic Number of Locally Sparse Graphs

2002 ◽  
Vol 11 (1) ◽  
pp. 103-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
VAN H. VU
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Present Author ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Constant Factor ◽  
Chromatic Index ◽  
Sparse Graphs ◽  
Critical Graphs ◽  
Multiplicative Constant ◽  
List Chromatic Number

Suppose that G is a graph with maximum degree d(G) such that, for every vertex v in G, the neighbourhood of v contains at most d(G)2/f (f > 1) edges. We show that the list chromatic number of G is at most Kd(G)/log f, for some positive constant K. This result is sharp up to the multiplicative constant K and strengthens previous results by Kim [9], Johansson [7], Alon, Krivelevich and Sudakov [3], and the present author [18]. This also motivates several interesting questions.As an application, we derive several upper bounds for the strong (list) chromatic index of a graph, under various assumptions. These bounds extend earlier results by Faudree, Gyárfás, Schelp and Tuza [6] and Mahdian [13] and determine, up to a constant factor, the strong (list) chromatic index of a random graph. Another application is an extension of a result of Kostochka and Steibitz [10] concerning the structure of list critical graphs.

scholarly journals Properties of the Steiner Triple Systems of Order 19

10.37236/370 ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles J. Colbourn ◽  
Anthony D. Forbes ◽  
Mike J. Grannell ◽  
Terry S. Griggs ◽  
Petteri Kaski ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Steiner Triple Systems ◽  
Chromatic Index ◽  
Triple Systems ◽  
Existentially Closed

Properties of the 11$\,$084$\,$874$\,$829 Steiner triple systems of order 19 are examined. In particular, there is exactly one 5-sparse, but no 6-sparse, STS(19); there is exactly one uniform STS(19); there are exactly two STS(19) with no almost parallel classes; all STS(19) have chromatic number 3; all have chromatic index 10, except for 4$\,$075 designs with chromatic index 11 and two with chromatic index 12; all are 3-resolvable; and there are exactly two 3-existentially closed STS(19).

scholarly journals Tensor Product Of Zero-divisor Graphs With Finite Free Semilattices

2017 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 13
Author(s):  
Kemal Toker
Keyword(s):  
Tensor Product ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Zero Divisor ◽  
Independence Number ◽  
Domination Number ◽  
Clique Number ◽  
Perfect Graph ◽  
Chromatic Index

$\Gamma (SL_{X})$ is defined and has been investigated in (Toker, 2016). In this paper our main aim is to extend this study over  $\Gamma (SL_{X})$ to the tensor product. The diameter, radius, girth, domination number, independence number, clique number, chromatic number and chromatic index of $\Gamma (SL_{X_{1}})\otimes \Gamma (SL_{X_{2}})$ has been established. Moreover, we have determined when $\Gamma (SL_{X_{1}})\otimes \Gamma (SL_{X_{2}})$ is a perfect graph.

scholarly journals Acyclic, Star and Oriented Colourings of Graph Subdivisions

2005 ◽  
Vol Vol. 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
David R. Wood
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Undirected Graph ◽  
The Other ◽  
Chromatic Index ◽  
Chromatic Numbers ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Vertex Partitions ◽  
Colour Classes ◽  
Vertex Colouring

International audience Let G be a graph with chromatic number χ (G). A vertex colouring of G is \emphacyclic if each bichromatic subgraph is a forest. A \emphstar colouring of G is an acyclic colouring in which each bichromatic subgraph is a star forest. Let χ _a(G) and χ _s(G) denote the acyclic and star chromatic numbers of G. This paper investigates acyclic and star colourings of subdivisions. Let G' be the graph obtained from G by subdividing each edge once. We prove that acyclic (respectively, star) colourings of G' correspond to vertex partitions of G in which each subgraph has small arboricity (chromatic index). It follows that χ _a(G'), χ _s(G') and χ (G) are tied, in the sense that each is bounded by a function of the other. Moreover the binding functions that we establish are all tight. The \emphoriented chromatic number χ ^→(G) of an (undirected) graph G is the maximum, taken over all orientations D of G, of the minimum number of colours in a vertex colouring of D such that between any two colour classes, all edges have the same direction. We prove that χ ^→(G')=χ (G) whenever χ (G)≥ 9.

An Improvement of Hind's Upper Bound on the Total Chromatic Number

1996 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 99-104 ◽  
Author(s):  
Amanda Chetwynd ◽  
Roland Häggkvist
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Chromatic Index ◽  
Total Chromatic Number

We show that the total chromatic number of a simple k-chromatic graph exceeds the chromatic index by at most 18k ⅓ log ½ 3k.

Total-chromatic number and chromatic index of dually chordal graphs

1999 ◽  
Vol 70 (3) ◽  
pp. 147-152 ◽  
Author(s):  
Celina M.H. de Figueiredo ◽  
João Meidanis ◽  
Célia Picinin de Mello
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Chordal Graphs ◽  
Chromatic Index ◽  
Total Chromatic Number

scholarly journals Bounds for Distinguishing Invariants of Infinite Graphs

10.37236/6362 ◽  
2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Wilfried Imrich ◽  
Rafał Kalinowski ◽  
Monika Pilśniak ◽  
Mohammad Hadi Shekarriz
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Infinite Graphs ◽  
Chromatic Index ◽  
Distinguishing Number ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Edge Colourings ◽  
Delta G ◽  
Vertex Colouring

We consider infinite graphs. The distinguishing number $D(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colours in a vertex colouring of $G$ that is preserved only by the trivial automorphism. An analogous invariant for edge colourings is called the distinguishing index, denoted by $D'(G)$. We prove that $D'(G)\leq D(G)+1$. For proper colourings, we study relevant invariants called the distinguishing chromatic number $\chi_D(G)$, and the distinguishing chromatic index $\chi'_D(G)$, for vertex and edge colourings, respectively. We show that $\chi_D(G)\leq 2\Delta(G)-1$ for graphs with a finite maximum degree $\Delta(G)$, and we obtain substantially lower bounds for some classes of graphs with infinite motion. We also show that $\chi'_D(G)\leq \chi'(G)+1$, where $\chi'(G)$ is the chromatic index of $G$, and we prove a similar result $\chi''_D(G)\leq \chi''(G)+1$ for proper total colourings. A number of conjectures are formulated.

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