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Properly colored trails, paths, and bridges

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  • Wayne Goddard

    (Clemson University)

  • Robert Melville

    (Clemson University)

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The proper-trail connection number of a graph is the minimum number of colors needed to color the edges such that every pair of vertices are joined by a trail without two consecutive edges of the same color; the proper-path connection number is defined similarly. In this paper we consider these in both bridgeless graphs and graphs in general. The main result is that both parameters are tied to the maximum number of bridges incident with a vertex. In particular, we provide for $$k\ge 4$$ k ≥ 4 a simple characterization of graphs with proper-trail connection number k, and show that the proper-path connection number can be approximated in polynomial-time within an additive 2.

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  • Wayne Goddard & Robert Melville, 2018. "Properly colored trails, paths, and bridges," Journal of Combinatorial Optimization, Springer, vol. 35(2), pages 463-472, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:jcomop:v:35:y:2018:i:2:d:10.1007_s10878-017-0191-4
    DOI: 10.1007/s10878-017-0191-4
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    Cited by:

    1. Li, Zhenzhen & Wu, Baoyindureng, 2022. "Proper-walk connection of hamiltonian digraphs," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 427(C).
    2. Fiedorowicz, Anna & Sidorowicz, Elżbieta & Sopena, Éric, 2021. "Proper connection and proper-walk connection of digraphs," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 410(C).
    3. Qin, Zhongmei & Zhang, Junxue, 2021. "Extremal stretch of proper-walk coloring of graphs," Applied Mathematics and Computation, Elsevier, vol. 405(C).

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