Two inequalities are established connecting the graph invariants of incidence chromatic number, star arboricity and domination number. Using these, upper and lower bounds are deduced for the incidence chromatic number of a graph and further reductions are made to the upper bound for a planar graph. It is shown that cubic graphs with orders not divisible by four are not 4-incidence colorable. Sh...

A proper coloring of the vertices of a graph is called a star coloring if every two color classes induce a star forest. Star colorings are a strengthening of acyclic colorings, i.e., proper colorings in which every two color classes induce a forest. We show that every acyclic k-coloring can be refined to a star coloring with at most (2k2 − k) colors. Similarly, we prove that planar graphs have ...

An edge coloring of a tournament T with colors 1, 2, . . . , k is called ktransitive if the digraph T (i) defined by the edges of color i is transitively oriented for each 1 ≤ i ≤ k. We explore a conjecture of the first author: For each positive integer k there exists a (least) p(k) such that every k-transitive tournament has a dominating set of at most p(k) vertices. We show how this conjectur...

We study various optimization problems in t-subtree graphs, the intersection graphs of tsubtrees, where a t-subtree is the union of t disjoint subtrees of some tree. This graph class generalizes both the class of chordal graphs and the class of t-interval graphs, a generalization of interval graphs that has recently been studied from a combinatorial optimization point of view. We present approx...

We study online algorithms with advice for the problem of coloring graphs which come as input vertex by vertex. We consider the class of all 3-colorable graphs and its sub-classes of chordal and maximal outerplanar graphs, respectively. We show that, in the case of the first two classes, for coloring optimally, essentially log2 3 advice bits per vertex (bpv) are necessary and sufficient. In the...

Given a graph G, the dominator coloring problem seeks a proper coloring of G with the additional property that every vertex in the graph dominates an entire color class. We seek to minimize the number of color classes. We study this problem on several classes of graphs, as well as finding general bounds and characterizations. We also show the relation between dominator chromatic number, chromat...

A proper vertex coloring of a graph is said to be locally identifying if the sets of colors in the closed neighborhood of any two adjacent non-twin vertices are distinct. The lid-chromatic number of a graph is the minimum number of colors used by a locally identifying vertex-coloring. In this paper, we prove that for any graph class of bounded expansion, the lid-chromatic number is bounded. Cla...