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Undergraduate Paper Session

Undergraduate Paper Session #3.4

Subevent of Undergraduate Paper Session #3

Times: Starts at 2026 Mar 27 03:00PM (Central Time (US & Canada))

Graph Families and Their Conflict-Free Coloring

Joseph Pope <jpope7@una.edu>, University of North Alabama

Coauthors: Dr. Miranda Bowie

Abstract:

Motivated by frequency-assignment problems in cellular networks, we study complete conflict-free colorings of graphs. A coloring of a graph $G$ is conflict-free if every vertex has a uniquely colored neighbor in its open neighborhood. The minimum number of colors required for such a coloring is the conflict-free chromatic number, denoted $\chi_{CF}(G)$. We determine the exact values of $\chi_{CF}(G)$ for several graph families such as paths, cycles, trees, complete graphs, and windmill graphs and provide conjectures on circulant and grid graphs.

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