Title
Cooperative Colorings and Independent Systems of Representatives
Abstract
We study a generalization of the notion of coloring of graphs, similar in spirit to that of list colorings: a cooperative coloring of a family of graphs G(1), G(2), ..., G(k) on the same vertex set V is a choice of independent sets A(i) in G(i) (1 <= i <= k) such that U-i=1(k) A(i) = V. This notion is linked (with translation in both directions) to the notion of ISRs, which are choice functions on given sets, whose range belongs to some simplicial complex. When the complex is that of the independent sets in a graph G, an ISR for a partition of the vertex set of G into sets, V-1,V- ..., V-n is a choice of a vertex v(i) is an element of V-i for each i such that {v(1), ..., v(n)} is independent in G. Using topological tools, we study degree conditions for the existence of cooperative colorings and of ISRs. A sample result: Three cycles on the same vertex set have a cooperative coloring.
Year
Venue
Field
2015
ELECTRONIC JOURNAL OF COMBINATORICS
Discrete mathematics,Graph,Combinatorics,Vertex (geometry),Simplicial complex,Partition (number theory),Mathematics
DocType
Volume
Issue
Journal
22.0
2.0
ISSN
Citations 
PageRank 
1077-8926
0
0.34
References 
Authors
13
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Ron Aharoni138066.56
Ron Holzman228743.78
David Howard3153.51
Philipp Sprüssel4468.52