chromatic number

A minimal colouring of a graph whose chromatic number is 3

Meaning

Noun

  • The smallest number of colours needed to colour a given graph (i.e., to assign a colour to each vertex such that no two vertices connected by an edge have the same colour).

Related

Similar words

  • vertex chromatic number

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