Complete Multipartite Graphs and the Relaxed Coloring Game

Let k be a positive integer, d be a nonnegative integer, and G be a finite graph. Two players, Alice and Bob, play a game on G by coloring the uncolored vertices with colors from a set X of k colors. At all times, the subgraph induced by a color class must have maximum degree at most d. Alice wins the game if all vertices are eventually colored; otherwise, Bob wins. The least k such that Alice has a winning strategy is called the d-relaxed game chromatic number of G, denoted ?? _g ^d (G). It is known that there exist graphs such that ?? _g ⁰(G)?=?3, but ?? _g ¹(G)?>?3. We will show that for all positive integers m, there exists a complete multipartite graph G such that m?????? _g ⁰(G)?<??? _g ¹(G).     

Coloring Vertices and Faces of Locally Planar Graphs

If G is an embedded graph, a vertex-face r-coloring is a mapping that assigns a color from the set {1, . . . ,r} to every vertex and every face of G such that different colors are assigned whenever two elements are either adjacent or incident. Let χ_vf(G) denote the minimum r such that G has a vertex-face r-coloring. Ringel conjectured that if G is planar, then χ_vf(G)≤6. A graph G drawn on a surface S is said to be 1-embedded in S if every edge crosses at most one other edge. Borodin proved that if G is 1-embedded in the plane, then χ(G)≤6. This result implies Ringel's conjecture. Ringel also stated a Heawood style theorem for 1-embedded graphs. We prove a slight strengthening of this result. If G is 1-embedded in S, let w(G) denote the edge-width of G, i.e. the length of a shortest non-contractible cycle in G. We show that if G is 1-embedded in S and w(G) is large enough, then the list chromatic number ch(G) is at most 8. Work completed while the author was the Neil R. Grabois Visiting Chair of Mathematics, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY 13346 USA. Supported in part by the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of Slovenia, Research Program P1–0507–0101.     

赋权图的圆染色与区间染色

赋权图的区间染色的定义与赋权图的圆染色的定义非常类型,唯一的区别就是将Ｇ的顶点对应圆周上的孤换为Ｇ的顶点对应区间上的子区间,讨论了赋权的圆染色与区染色的关系。     

Sum List Coloring Graphs

Let G=(V,E) be a graph with n vertices and e edges. The sum choice number of G is the smallest integer p such that there exist list sizes (f(v):v ∈ V) whose sum is p for which G has a proper coloring no matter which color lists of size f(v) are assigned to the vertices v. The sum choice number is bounded above by n+e. If the sum choice number of G equals n+e, then G is sum choice greedy. Complete graphs K_n are sum choice greedy as are trees. Based on a simple, but powerful, lemma we show that a graph each of whose blocks is sum choice greedy is also sum choice greedy. We also determine the sum choice number of K_2,n, and we show that every tree on n vertices can be obtained from K_n by consecutively deleting single edges where all intermediate graphs are sc-greedy.     

Locally Paley Graphs

We conjecturethat all locally Paley graphs are known. For locally Paley(p)with p < 100000 this is true.     

Additive Coloring of Planar Graphs

An additive coloring of a graph G is an assignment of positive integers \({\{1,2,\ldots ,k\}}\) to the vertices of G such that for every two adjacent vertices the sums of numbers assigned to their neighbors are different. The minimum number k for which there exists an additive coloring of G is denoted by \({\eta (G)}\) . We prove that \({\eta (G) \, \leqslant \, 468}\) for every planar graph G. This improves a previous bound \({\eta (G) \, \leqslant \, 5544}\) due to Norin. The proof uses Combinatorial Nullstellensatz and the coloring number of planar hypergraphs. We also demonstrate that \({\eta (G) \, \leqslant \, 36}\) for 3-colorable planar graphs, and \({\eta (G) \, \leqslant \, 4}\) for every planar graph of girth at least 13. In a group theoretic version of the problem we show that for each \({r \, \geqslant \, 2}\) there is an r-chromatic graph G _r with no additive coloring by elements of any abelian group of order r.     

Edge Coloring of Split Graphs

A split graph is a graph whose vertex set admits a partition into a stable set and a clique. The chromatic indexes for some subsets of split graphs, such as split graphs with odd maximum degree and split-indifference graphs, are known. However, for the general class, the problem remains unsolved. This paper presents new results about the classification problem for split graphs as a contribution in the direction of solving the entire problem for this class.     

Coloring of Double Disk Graphs

We study the problem of minimizing the number of colors for vertex-coloring of double disk graphs and in this note, show a polynomial-time 31-approximation for the problem, which improves an existing result.     

Sum List Coloring Block Graphs

A graph is f-choosable if for every collection of lists with list sizes specified by f there is a proper coloring using colors from the lists. We characterize f-choosable functions for block graphs (graphs in which each block is a clique, including trees and line graphs of trees). The sum choice number is the minimum over all choosable functions f of the sum of the sizes in f. The sum choice number of any graph is at most the number of vertices plus the number of edges. We show that this bound is tight for block graphs.Acknowledgments. Partially supported by a grant from the Reidler Foundation. The author would like to thank an anonymous referee for useful comments.     

Coloring Fuzzy Circular Interval Graphs

Computing the weighted coloring number of graphs is a classical topic in combinatorics and graph theory. Recently these problems have again attracted a lot of attention for the class of quasi-line graphs and more specifically fuzzy circular interval graphs.The problem is NP-complete for quasi-line graphs. For the subclass of fuzzy circular interval graphs however, one can compute the weighted coloring number in polynomial time using recent results of Chudnovsky and Ovetsky and of King and Reed. Whether one could actually compute an optimal weighted coloring of a fuzzy circular interval graph in polynomial time however was still open.We provide a combinatorial algorithm that computes weighted colorings and the weighted coloring number for fuzzy circular interval graphs efficiently. The algorithm reduces the problem to the case of circular interval graphs, then making use of an algorithm by Gijswijt to compute integer decompositions.     

Locally Well-Dominated and Locally Independent Well-Dominated Graphs

 In this article we present characterizations of locally well-dominated graphs and locally independent well-dominated graphs, and a sufficient condition for a graph to be k-locally independent well-dominated. Using these results we show that the irredundance number, the domination number and the independent domination number can be computed in polynomial time within several classes of graphs, e.g., the class of locally well-dominated graphs. Received: September 13, 2001 Final version received: May 17, 2002 RID="*" ID="*" Supported by the INTAS and the Belarus Government (Project INTAS-BELARUS 97-0093) RID="†" ID="†" Supported by RUTCOR RID="*" ID="*" Supported by the INTAS and the Belarus Government (Project INTAS-BELARUS 97-0093) 05C75, 05C69 Acknowledgments. The authors thank the referees for valuable suggestions.     

阿基米德图的面唯一极大染色

给定平面图G的一个正常κ-顶点染色φ:V(G)→{1,2,…,κ},若对G的每个面f,与f关联的顶点所染颜色的极大颜色在与f关联的顶点中仅出现一次,则称φ是图G的面唯一极大κ-染色.图G存在面唯一极大κ-染色的κ的最小值称为G的面唯一极大色数,记作χfum(G).本文研究了阿基米德图的面唯一极大色数,证得若图G是阿基米德图,则χfum(G)=4.     

On the Coloring of Series-Parallel Graphs

Throughoutthispaper,allgraphsarefinite,simpleandundirected.ForagraphG,weuseV(G),E(G),(G)and(G)todenotethevertexset,theedgeset,themaximum(vertex)degreeandtheminimum(vertex)degreeofG.IfvV(G),NG(v)denotesthesetofverticesarjacenttov,thedegreedG(v)is|NG(v...     

关于图的3-条件色数

For integers k0,r0,a(k,r)-coloring of a graph G is a proper k-coloring of the vertices such that every vertex of degree d is adjacent to vertices with at least min{d,r}diferent colors.The r-hued chromatic number,denoted byχr(G),is the smallest integer k for which a graph G has a(k,r)-coloring.Define a graph G is r-normal,ifχr(G)=χ(G).In this paper,we present two sufcient conditions for a graph to be 3-normal,and the best upper bound of 3-hued chromatic number of a certain families of graphs.     

若干Mycielski图的均匀染色

如果图G的一个正常顶点染色满足任两个色类中的顶点数相差不超过1,则称为G的均匀染色.研究了一些Mycielski图的均匀染色,给出了路、圈、完全图和广义星图的Mycielski图的均匀色数.     

Acyclic List Edge Coloring of Graphs

A proper edge coloring of a graph is said to be acyclic if any cycle is colored with at least three colors. An edge-list L of a graph G is a mapping that assigns a finite set of positive integers to each edge of G. An acyclic edge coloring ? of G such that for any is called an acyclic L-edge coloring of G. A graph G is said to be acyclically k-edge choosable if it has an acyclic L‐edge coloring for any edge‐list L that satisfies for each edge e. The acyclic list chromatic index is the least integer k such that G is acyclically k‐edge choosable. We develop techniques to obtain bounds for the acyclic list chromatic indices of outerplanar graphs, subcubic graphs, and subdivisions of Halin graphs.     

1—外平面图的边面全色数

一个平面图Ｇ被称为１－外平面图如果存在一个顶点ｕ 使得Ｇ－ ｕ 是一个外平面图．本文证明了Ｍｅｌｎｉｋｏｖ 的边面染色猜想对所有１－外平面图成立．