A characterization of uniquely vertex colorable graphs using minimal defining sets
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A characterization of uniquely vertex colorable graphs using minimal defining sets
A defining set (of vertex coloring) of a graph G is a set of vertices S with an assignment of colors to its elements which has a unique completion to a proper coloring of G. We define a minimal defining set to be a defining set which does not properly contain another defining set. If G is a uniquely vertex colorable graph, clearly its minimum defining sets are of size χ(G) − 1. It is shown that...
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عنوان ژورنال: Discrete Mathematics
سال: 1999
ISSN: 0012-365X
DOI: 10.1016/s0012-365x(98)00304-5