We study the Equitable Connected Partition problem, which is the problem of partitioning a graph into a given number of partitions, such that each partition induces a connected subgraph, and the partitions differ in size by at most one. We examine the problem from the parameterized complexity perspective with respect to the number of partitions, the treewidth, the pathwidth, the size of a minim...

A basic randomized coloring procedure has been used in probabilistic proofs to obtain remarkably strong results on graph coloring. These results include the asymptotic version of the List Coloring Conjecture due to Kahn, the extensions of Brooks’ Theorem to sparse graphs due to Kim and Johansson, and Luby’s fast parallel and distributed algorithms for graph coloring. The most challenging aspect...

The vertex arboricity $rho(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of subsets into which the vertex set $V(G)$ can be partitioned so that each subset induces an acyclic graph‎. ‎A graph $G$ is called list vertex $k$-arborable if for any set $L(v)$ of cardinality at least $k$ at each vertex $v$ of $G$‎, ‎one can choose a color for each $v$ from its list $L(v)$ so that the subgraph induced by ev...

An equitable colouring of a balanced G-design (X,B) is a map φ∶B → C such that ∣bi(x) − bj(x)∣ ≤ 1 for any x ∈ X and i, j, with i ≠ j, being bi(x) the number of blocks containing the vertex x and coloured with the colour i. A c-colouring is a colouring in which exactly c colours are used. A c-colouring of type s is a colourings in which, for every vertex x, all the blocks containing x are colou...

A graph is equitably k-colorable if its vertices can be partitioned into k independent sets in such a way that the number of vertices in any two sets differ by at most one. The smallest k for which such a coloring exists is known as the equitable chromatic number of G and denoted χ=(G). It is known that this problem is NP-hard in general case and remains so for corona graphs. In [12] Lin i Chan...

Let $A$ and $B$ be two disjoint subsets of the vertex set $V$ of a graph $G$. The set $A$ is said to dominate $B$, denoted by $A rightarrow B$, if for every vertex $u in B$ there exists a vertex $v in A$ such that $uv in E(G)$. For any graph $G$, a partition $pi = {V_1,$ $V_2,$ $ldots,$ $V_p}$ of the vertex set $V$ is an textit{upper domatic partition} if $V_i rightarrow V_j$ or $V_j rightarrow...

A proper graph coloring is called equitable if the sizes of every two color classes differ by at most one. We consider the following generalized notion of graph colorings: a vertex coloring of graph G is valid w.r.t. some fixed nonempty graph F if no color class induces a copy of F in G, i.e., there is no monochromatic copy of F in G. We propose and analyze an algorithm for computing valid equi...

a signed graph (marked graph) is an ordered pair $s=(g,sigma)$$(s=(g,mu))$, where $g=(v,e)$ is a graph called the underlyinggraph of $s$ and $sigma:erightarrow{+,-}$$(mu:vrightarrow{+,-})$ is a function. for a graph $g$, $v(g),e(g)$ and $c(g)$ denote its vertex set, edge set and cut-vertexset, respectively. the lict graph $l_{c}(g)$ of a graph $g=(v,e)$is defined as the graph having vertex set ...

the total version of geometric–arithmetic index of graphs is introduced based on the endvertexdegrees of edges of their total graphs. in this paper, beside of computing the total gaindex for some graphs, its some properties especially lower and upper bounds are obtained.

It is shown that when a special vertex stretching is applied to a graph, the cochordal cover number of the graph increases exactly by one, as it happens to its induced matching number and (Castelnuovo-Mumford) regularity. As a consequence, it is shown that the induced matching number and cochordal cover number of a special vertex stretching of a graph G are equal provided G is well-covered bipa...