AIMS Mathematics 2025, 10(3): 5960-5970
Published: 15 March 2025
A subset in a vertex-colored graph is termed rainbow when vertices in receive distinct colors from each other. For each pair of vertices , if there exists satisfying rainbow and disconnected in for nonadjacent ; or rainbow and disconnected in for adjacent , then is rainbow vertex-disconnected. The smallest number needed to color so that it is rainbow vertex-disconnected is known as the rainbow vertex-disconnection number of , or . The RVD-Problem aims to determine whether has a rainbow vertex-disconnection coloring with colors given the graph and a positive integer . In this paper, some bounds between and different parameters, such as diameter, independence number, and so on, are obtained. Some results of rainbow vertex-disconnection numbers of three graph products are then obtained. Last, we demonstrate that there is a polynomial time approach that approximates of split graph within a factor of . We show RVD-Problem is -complete for induced -free split graphs for but polynomially solvable for .