For a bounded integer , we wish to color all edges of a graph G so that any two edges within distance have different colors. Such a coloring is called a distance-edge-coloring or an -edge-coloring of G. The distance-edge-coloring problem is to compute the minimum number of colors required for a distance-edge-coloring of a given graph G. A partial k-tree is a graph with tree-width bounded by a f...

In the edge precoloring extension problem we are given a graph with some of the edges having a preassigned color 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 s...

A proper vertex coloring of a graph G = (V , E) is acyclic if G contains no bicolored cycle. Given a list assignment L = {L(v) | v ∈ V } of G, we say G is acyclically L-list colorable if there exists a proper acyclic coloring π of G such that π(v) ∈ L(v) for all v ∈ V . If G is acyclically L-list colorable for any list assignment with |L(v)| ≥ k for all v ∈ V , then G is acyclically k-choosable...

We consider vertex coloring of an acyclic digraph ~ G in such a way that two vertices which have a common ancestor in ~ G receive distinct colors. Such colorings arise in a natural way when clustering, indexing and bounding space for various genetic data for efficient analysis. We discuss the corresponding chromatic number and derive an upper bound as a function of the maximum number of descend...

A strong edge coloring of a graph G is an edge coloring such that every two adjacent edges or two edges adjacent to a same edge receive two distinct colors; in other words, every path of length three has three distinct colors in G. The strong chromatic index of G, denoted by   S G  , is the smallest integer k such that G admits a strong edge coloring with k colors. This survey is an brief i...

A k-edge-weighting w of a graph G is an assignment of an integer weight, w(e) ∈ {1, . . . , k}, to each edge e. An edge weighting naturally induces a vertex coloring c by defining c(u) = ∑ u∼e w(e) for every u ∈ V (G). A k-edge-weighting of a graph G is vertexcoloring if the induced coloring c is proper, i.e., c(u) ≠ c(v) for any edge uv ∈ E(G). Given a graph G and a vertex coloring c0, does th...

Let G be an edge-colored graph. A heterochromatic (rainbow, or multicolored) path of G is such a path in which no two edges have the same color. Let CN(v) denote the color neighborhood of a vertex v of G. In a previous paper, we showed that if |CN(u)∪CN(v)| ≥ s (color neighborhood union condition) for every pair of vertices u and v of G, then G has a heterochromatic path of length at least b 2s...

An acyclic coloring of a graph G is a coloring of its vertices such that : (i) no two adjacent vertices in G receive the same color and (ii) no bicolored cycles exist in G. A list assignment of G is a function L that assigns to each vertex v ∈ V (G) a list L(v) of available colors. Let G be a graph and L be a list assignment of G. The graph G is acyclically L-list colorable if there exists an a...

compiled April 30, 2009 from draft version hg:e0660c153c0b:79 An acyclic coloring of a graph is a proper vertex coloring such that the subgraph induced by the union of any two color classes is a disjoint collection of trees. The more restricted notion of star coloring requires that the union of any two color classes induces a disjoint collection of stars. The acyclic and star chromatic numbers ...