A clique-coloring of a given graph G is a coloring of the vertices of G such that no maximal clique of size at least two is monocolored. The clique-chromatic number of G is the least number of colors for which G admits a clique-coloring. It has been proved that every planar graph is 3-clique colorable and every claw-free planar graph, different from an odd cycle, is 2-clique colorable. In this ...

Several new tools are presented for determining the number of cliques needed to (edge-)partition a graph . For a graph on n vertices, the clique partition number can grow cn z times as fast as the clique covering number, where c is at least 1/64. If in a clique on n vertices, the edges between en° vertices are deleted, Z--a < 1, then the number of cliques needed to partition what is left is asy...

The clique graph K(G) of G is the intersection graph of all its (maximal) cliques. A connected graph G is self-clique whenever G ∼= K(G). Self-clique graphs have been studied in several papers. Here we propose a hierarchy of self-clique graphs: Type 3 ( Type 2 ( Type 1 ( Type 0. We give characterizations for classes of Types 3, 2 and 1 (including Helly self-clique graphs) and several new constr...

A clique in a graph G is a complete subgraph of G. A clique covering (partition) of G is a collection C of cliques such that each edge of G occurs in at least (exactly) one clique in C. The clique covering (partition) number cc(G) (cp(G)) of G is the minimum size of a clique covering (partition) of G. This paper gives alternative proofs, using a unified approach, for the results on the clique c...

Let $G$ be a non-abelian group and let $Z(G)$ be the center of $G$. Associate with $G$ there is agraph $Gamma_G$ as follows: Take $Gsetminus Z(G)$ as vertices of$Gamma_G$ and joint two distinct vertices $x$ and $y$ whenever$yxneq yx$. $Gamma_G$ is called the non-commuting graph of $G$. In recent years many interesting works have been done in non-commutative graph of groups. Computing the clique...

This work has two aims: First, we introduce a powerful technique for proving clique divergence when the graph satisfies a certain symmetry condition. Second, we prove that each closed surface admits a clique divergent triangulation. By definition, a graph is clique divergent if the orders of its iterated clique graphs tend to infinity, and the clique graph of a graph is the intersection graph o...

Let $G$ be a graph with vertex set $V(G)$. For any integer $kge 1$, a signed (total) $k$-dominating functionis a function $f: V(G) rightarrow { -1, 1}$ satisfying $sum_{xin N[v]}f(x)ge k$ ($sum_{xin N(v)}f(x)ge k$)for every $vin V(G)$, where $N(v)$ is the neighborhood of $v$ and $N[v]=N(v)cup{v}$. The minimum of the values$sum_{vin V(G)}f(v)$, taken over all signed (total) $k$-dominating functi...

The intersection graph $mathbb{Int}(A)$ of an $S$-act $A$ over a semigroup $S$ is an undirected simple graph whose vertices are non-trivial subacts of $A$, and two distinct vertices are adjacent if and only if they have a non-empty intersection. In this paper, we study some graph-theoretic properties of $mathbb{Int}(A)$ in connection to some algebraic properties of $A$. It is proved that the fi...

in a graph g = (v,e), a subset s  v is said to be an open packing set if no two vertices of s have a common neighbour in g. the maximum cardinality of an open packing set is called the open packing number and is denoted by rho^o. this paper further studies on this parameter by obtaining some new bounds.

let $p$ be a prime number and $n$ be a positive integer. the graph $g_p(n)$ is a graph with vertex set $[n]={1,2,ldots ,n}$, in which there is an arc from $u$ to $v$ if and only if $uneq v$ and $pnmid u+v$. in this paper it is shown that $g_p(n)$ is a perfect graph. in addition, an explicit formula for the chromatic number of such graph is given.