Circular list colorings of some graphs

The circular list coloring is a circular version of list colorings of graphs. Let χinc,l denote the circular choosability(or the circular list chromatic number). In this paper, the circular choosability of outer planar graphs and odd wheel is discussed.     

Neighbor Sum Distinguishing Total Choice Number of Planar Graphs without 6-cycles

Pil?niak and Wo?niak put forward the concept of neighbor sum distinguishing (NSD) total coloring and conjectured that any graph with maximum degree Δ admits an NSD total (Δ+3)-coloring in 2015. In 2016, Qu et al. showed that the list version of the conjecture holds for any planar graph with Δ ≥ 13. In this paper, we prove that any planar graph with Δ ≥ 7 but without 6-cycles satisfies the list version of the conjecture.     

Colorings of plane graphs: A survey

After a brief historical account, a few simple structural theorems about plane graphs useful for coloring are stated, and two simple applications of discharging are given. Afterwards, the following types of proper colorings of plane graphs are discussed, both in their classical and choosability (list coloring) versions: simultaneous colorings of vertices, edges, and faces (in all possible combinations, including total coloring), edge-coloring, cyclic coloring (all vertices in any small face have different colors), 3-coloring, acyclic coloring (no 2-colored cycles), oriented coloring (homomorphism of directed graphs to small tournaments), a special case of circular coloring (the colors are points of a small cycle, and the colors of any two adjacent vertices must be nearly opposite on this cycle), 2-distance coloring (no 2-colored paths on three vertices), and star coloring (no 2-colored paths on four vertices). The only improper coloring discussed is injective coloring (any two vertices having a common neighbor should have distinct colors).     

关于Reed列表染色猜想的一些结果

构造了一个图G,给G的每个顶点v一个颜色列表,使得每个列表Lv的大小至少为每个顶点v的邻域NG(v)与每个Vc交集的最大数目,但是这个图不存在一个正常的列表染色,从而推翻了R eed的一个猜想.     

Outerplanar and Planar Oriented Cliques

The clique number of an undirected graph G is the maximum order of a complete subgraph of G and is a well‐known lower bound for the chromatic number of G. Every proper k‐coloring of G may be viewed as a homomorphism (an edge‐preserving vertex mapping) of G to the complete graph of order k. By considering homomorphisms of oriented graphs (digraphs without cycles of length at most 2), we get a natural notion of (oriented) colorings and oriented chromatic number of oriented graphs. An oriented clique is then an oriented graph whose number of vertices and oriented chromatic number coincide. However, the structure of oriented cliques is much less understood than in the undirected case. In this article, we study the structure of outerplanar and planar oriented cliques. We first provide a list of 11 graphs and prove that an outerplanar graph can be oriented as an oriented clique if and only if it contains one of these graphs as a spanning subgraph. Klostermeyer and MacGillivray conjectured that the order of a planar oriented clique is at most 15, which was later proved by Sen. We show that any planar oriented clique on 15 vertices must contain a particular oriented graph as a spanning subgraph, thus reproving the above conjecture. We also provide tight upper bounds for the order of planar oriented cliques of girth k for all .     

Acyclic improper choosability of graphs

We consider improper colorings (sometimes called generalized, defective or relaxed colorings) in which every color class has a bounded degree. We propose a natural extension of improper colorings: acyclic improper choosability. We prove that subcubic graphs are acyclically (3, 1)*-choosable (i.e. they are acyclically 3-choosable with color classes of maximum degree one). Using a linear time algorithm, we also prove that outerplanar graphs are acyclically (2, 5)*-choosable (i.e. they are acyclically 2-choosable with color classes of maximum degree five). Both results are optimal. We finally prove that acyclic choosability and acyclic improper choosability of planar graphs are equivalent notions.     

Acrylic improper colorings of graphs

In this article, we introduce the new notion of acyclic improper colorings of graphs. An improper coloring of a graph is a vertex-coloring in which adjacent vertices are allowed to have the same color, but each color class V_i satisfies some condition depending on i. Such a coloring is acyclic if there are no alternating 2-colored cycles. We prove that every outerplanar graph can be acyclically 2-colored in such a way that each monochromatic subgraph has degree at most five and that this result is best possible. For planar graphs, we prove some negative results and state some open problems. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Graph Theory 32: 97–107, 1999     

Decomposition of cubic graphs related to Wegner’s conjecture

Thomassen formulated the following conjecture: Every 3-connected cubic graph has a red–blue vertex coloring such that the blue subgraph has maximum degree 1 (that is, it consists of a matching and some isolated vertices) and the red subgraph has minimum degree at least 1 and contains no 3-edge path. We prove the conjecture for Generalized Petersen graphs.We indicate that a coloring with the same properties might exist for any subcubic graph. We confirm this statement for all subcubic trees.     

List edge and list total coloring of 1-planar graphs

A graph is 1-planar if it can be drawn on the plane so that each edge is crossed by at most one other edge. In this paper, it is proved that each 1-planar graph with maximum degree Δ is (Δ+1)-edge-choosable and (Δ+2)- total-choosable if Δ≥16, and is Δ-edge-choosable and (Δ+1)-total-choosable if Δ≥21. The second conclusion confirms the list coloring conjecture for the class of 1-planar graphs with large maximum degree.     

Sharp Dirac's theorem for DP‐critical graphs

Correspondence coloring, or DP‐coloring, is a generalization of list coloring introduced recently by Dvořák and Postle [11]. In this article, we establish a version of Dirac's theorem on the minimum number of edges in critical graphs [9] in the framework of DP‐colorings. A corollary of our main result answers a question posed by Kostochka and Stiebitz [15] on classifying list‐critical graphs that satisfy Dirac's bound with equality.     

D(β)-vertex-distinguishing total coloring of graphs

A new concept of the D(β)-vertex-distinguishing total coloring of graphs, i.e., the proper total coloring such that any two vertices whose distance is not larger than β have different color sets, where the color set of a vertex is the set composed of all colors of the vertex and the edges incident to it, is proposed in this paper. The D(2)-vertex-distinguishing total colorings of some special graphs are discussed, meanwhile, a conjecture and an open problem are presented.     

On-line and first fit colorings of graphs

A graph coloring algorithm that immediately colors the vertices taken from a list without looking ahead or changing colors already assigned is called “on-line coloring.” The properties of on-line colorings are investigated in several classes of graphs. In many cases we find on-line colorings that use no more colors than some function of the largest clique size of the graph. We show that the first fit on-line coloring has an absolute performance ratio of two for the complement of chordal graphs. We prove an upper bound for the performance ratio of the first fit coloring on interval graphs. It is also shown that there are simple families resisting any on-line algorithm: no on-line algorithm can color all trees by a bounded number of colors.     

Acyclic systems of representatives and acyclic colorings of digraphs

A natural digraph analog of the graph theoretic concept of “an independent set” is that of “an acyclic set of vertices,” namely a set not spanning a directed cycle. By this token, an analog of the notion of coloring of a graph is that of decomposition of a digraph into acyclic sets. We extend some known results on independent sets and colorings in graphs to acyclic sets and acyclic colorings of digraphs. In particular, we prove bounds on the topological connectivity of the complex of acyclic sets, and using them we prove sufficient conditions for the existence of acyclic systems of representatives of a system of sets of vertices. These bounds generalize a result of Tardos and Szabó. We prove a fractional version of a strong‐acyclic‐coloring conjecture for digraphs. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 59: 177–189, 2008     

On a list coloring conjecture of Reed

We construct graphs with lists of available colors for each vertex, such that the size of every list exceeds the maximum vertex‐color degree, but there exists no proper coloring from the lists. This disproves a conjecture of Reed. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 41: 106–109, 2002     

Facial unique-maximum colorings of plane graphs with restriction on big vertices

A facial unique-maximum coloring of a plane graph is a proper coloring of the vertices using positive integers such that each face has a unique vertex that receives the maximum color in that face. Fabrici and Göring (2016) proposed a strengthening of the Four Color Theorem conjecturing that all plane graphs have a facial unique-maximum coloring using four colors. This conjecture has been disproven for general plane graphs and it was shown that five colors suffice. In this paper we show that plane graphs, where vertices of degree at least four induce a star forest, are facially unique-maximum 4-colorable. This improves a previous result for subcubic plane graphs by Andova et al. (2018). We conclude the paper by proposing some problems.     

NP‐completeness of list coloring and precoloring extension on the edges of planar graphs

In the edge precoloring extension problem, we are given a graph with some of the edges having preassigned colors and it has to be decided whether this coloring can be extended to a proper k‐edge‐coloring of the graph. In list edge coloring every edge has a list of admissible colors, and the question is whether there is a proper edge coloring where every edge receives a color from its list. We show that both problems are NP‐complete on (a) planar 3‐regular bipartite graphs, (b) bipartite outerplanar graphs, and (c) bipartite series‐parallel graphs. This improves previous results of Easton and Parker 6 , and Fiala 8 . © 2005 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 49: 313–324, 2005     

Invalid proofs on incidence coloring

Incidence coloring of a graph G is a mapping from the set of incidences to a color-set C such that adjacent incidences of G are assigned distinct colors. Since 1993, numerous fruitful results as regards incidence coloring have been proved. However, some of them are incorrect. We remedy the error of the proof in [R.A. Brualdi, J.J.Q. Massey, Incidence and strong edge colorings of graphs, Discrete Math. 122 (1993) 51-58] concerning complete bipartite graphs. Also, we give an example to show that an outerplanar graph with Δ=4 is not 5-incidence colorable, which contradicts [S.D. Wang, D.L. Chen, S.C. Pang, The incidence coloring number of Halin graphs and outerplanar graphs, Discrete Math. 256 (2002) 397-405], and prove that the incidence chromatic number of the outerplanar graph with Δ≥7 is Δ+1. Moreover, we prove that the incidence chromatic number of the cubic Halin graph is 5. Finally, to improve the lower bound of the incidence chromatic number, we give some sufficient conditions for graphs that cannot be (Δ+1)-incidence colorable.     

Graph unique-maximum and conflict-free colorings

We investigate the relationship between two kinds of vertex colorings of graphs: unique-maximum colorings and conflict-free colorings. In a unique-maximum coloring, the colors are ordered, and in every path of the graph the maximum color appears only once. In a conflict-free coloring, in every path of the graph there is a color that appears only once. We also study computational complexity aspects of conflict-free colorings and prove a completeness result. Finally, we improve lower bounds for those chromatic numbers of the grid graph.     

Star Edge Coloring of Some Classes of Graphs

A star edge coloring of a graph is a proper edge coloring without bichromatic paths and cycles of length four. In this article, we establish tight upper bounds for trees and subcubic outerplanar graphs, and derive an upper bound for outerplanar graphs.     

Planar Digraphs of Digirth Five Are 2‐Colorable

Neumann‐Lara (1985) and ?krekovski conjectured that every planar digraph with digirth at least three is 2‐colorable, meaning that the vertices can be 2‐colored without creating any monochromatic directed cycles. We prove a relaxed version of this conjecture: every planar digraph of digirth at least five is 2‐colorable. The result also holds in the setting of list colorings.