CanaDAM 2011 Université de Victoria, 31 mai - 3 juin 2011 www.smc.math.ca//2011f

Chromatic Numbers of Graphs
Org: Joan Hutchinson (Macalester College)
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KAREN L. COLLINS, Wesleyan University, Middletown CT 06459-0128
Bounds on the distinguishing chromatic number of a graph  [PDF]

Albertson and Collins defined the distinguishing number of graph $G$ as the minimum number of colors needed to color the vertices of $G$ so that only the trivial automorphism preserves the colors. Collins and Trenk defined the distinguishing chromatic number, $\chi_D(G)$, to be the minimum number of colors needed for a labeling which is both proper and distinguishing. We will generalize the classic Nordhaus-Gaddum theorem for $\chi(G)$ to $\chi_D(G)$ and discuss other bounds on $\chi_D(G)$.

Defective chromatic and cochromatic numbers  [PDF]

A set of vertices is k-sparse if it induces a graph with maximum degree at most k. Similarly, a set of vertices is k-dense if the compliment of the graph it induces has maximum degree at most k. We discuss minimum partitions of the vertex set into parts that are k-sparse (the k-defective chromatic number) and partitions where each part is k-sparse or k-dense (the k-defective cochromatic number).

RUTH HAAS, Smith College
The Canonical Coloring Graph  [PDF]

Given a graph $G$, a Canonical Coloring Graph $Can(G)$ has vertex set the set of all nonisomorphic colorings of the $G$, where the representative of each set of isomorphic colorings is chosen according to a canonical ordering. There is an edge between two colorings if they are identical on $V(G-x)$ for some $x\in V (G)$. $Can(G)$ depends on the choice of canonical representatives. In this talk we give recent results about properties of $Can(G)$.

JOAN HUTCHINSON, Macalester College
List-coloring extension results for planar graphs, Part I  [PDF]

M.O. Albertson has asked whether, given a planar graph $G$ with lists of size at least 5 for each vertex, there is a $d > 0$ such that whenever $P \subset V(G)$ has distance between every pair of vertices of $P$ at least $d$, then every precoloring of $P$ extends to a 5-list-coloring of $G$. With M. Axenovich and M.A. Lastrina we present results giving instances when the question has an affirmative answer.

MICHELLE LASTRINA, Iowa State University
List-coloring extension results for planar graphs, Part II  [PDF]

J.P. Hutchinson conjectured that, given a planar graph $G$ with two nonadjacent vertices on the unbounded face having lists of size 2, the remaining vertices on the unbounded face having lists of size 3 and all other vertices of $G$ having lists of size 5, then $G$ can be list-colored. Hutchinson proved the result for outerplanar graphs. With M. Axenovich we present various other types of graphs for which the conjecture holds.

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