RUS  ENG
Full version
JOURNALS // Zapiski Nauchnykh Seminarov POMI // Archive

Zap. Nauchn. Sem. POMI, 2016 Volume 450, Pages 37–42 (Mi znsl6335)

This article is cited in 2 papers

Bounds on the dynamic chromatic number of a graph in terms of the chromatic number

N. Y. Vlasovaa, D. V. Karpovba

a St. Petersburg State University, St. Petersburg, Russia
b St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Mathematical Institute of Russian Academy of Sciences, St. Petersburg, Russia

Abstract: A vertex coloring of a graph is called dynamic, if the neighborhood of any vertex of degree at least 2 contains at least two vertices of distinct colors. Similarly to the chromatic number $\chi(G)$ of the graph $G$ one can define its dynamic number $\chi_d(G)$ (the minimal number of colors in a dynamic coloring) and dynamic chromatic number $\chi_2(G)$ (the minimal number of colors in a proper dynamic coloring). We prove that $\chi_2(G)\le\chi(G)\cdot\chi_d(G)$ and construct an infinite series of graphs for which this bound on $\chi_2(G)$ is tight.
For a graph $G$ set $k=\lceil\frac{2\Delta(G)}{\delta(G)}\rceil$. We prove that $\chi_2(G)\le (k+1)c$. Moreover, in the case where $k\ge3$ and $\Delta(G)\ge3$ we prove a stronger bound $\chi_2(G)\le kc$.

Key words and phrases: chromatic number, proper coloring, dynamic coloring.

UDC: 519.174.7

Received: 11.10.2016


 English version:
Journal of Mathematical Sciences (New York), 2018, 232:1, 21–24

Bibliographic databases:


© Steklov Math. Inst. of RAS, 2024