Suppose G is r-colorable and P V (G) is such that the components of G[P] are far apart. We show that any (r + s)-coloring of G[P] in which each component is s-colored extends to ...
A dynamic coloring of a graph is a proper coloring of its vertices such that every vertex of degree more than one has at least two neighbors with distinct colors. The least number...
The square G2 of a graph G is the graph with the same vertex set as G and with two vertices adjacent if their distance in G is at most 2. Thomassen showed that for a planar graph ...
We show that computing the lexicographically first four-coloring for planar graphs is p 2hard. This result optimally improves upon a result of Khuller and Vazirani who prove this ...