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Bounds and complexity results of rainbow vertex-disconnection colorings
AIMS Mathematics 2025, 10(3): 5960-5970
Published: 15 March 2025
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A subset Y V ( G ) in a vertex-colored graph G is termed rainbow when vertices in Y receive distinct colors from each other. For each pair of vertices w 1 , w 2 V ( G ), if there exists F V ( G ) satisfying F rainbow and w 1 , w 2 disconnected in G F for nonadjacent w 1 , w 2 ; F + w 1 or F + w 2 rainbow and w 1 , w 2 disconnected in ( G w 1 w 2 ) F for adjacent w 1 , w 2 , then G is rainbow vertex-disconnected. The smallest number needed to color G so that it is rainbow vertex-disconnected is known as the rainbow vertex-disconnection number of G, or r v d ( G ). The RVD-Problem aims to determine whether G has a rainbow vertex-disconnection coloring with k colors given the graph G and a positive integer k. In this paper, some bounds between r v d ( G ) 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 r v d ( G ) of split graph G within a factor of n 2 / 3 . We show RVD-Problem is N P-complete for induced K 1 , t -free split graphs for t 4 but polynomially solvable for t 3.

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