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<metadata xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/"><dc:title>Colorings with neighborhood parity condition</dc:title><dc:creator>Petruševski,	Mirko	(Avtor)
	</dc:creator><dc:creator>Škrekovski,	Riste	(Avtor)
	</dc:creator><dc:subject>planar graphs</dc:subject><dc:subject>neighborhood</dc:subject><dc:subject>proper coloring</dc:subject><dc:subject>odd coloring</dc:subject><dc:description>In this short paper, we introduce a new vertex coloring whose motivation comes from our series on odd edge-colorings of graphs. A proper vertex coloring $\varphi$ of a graph $G$ is said to be odd if for each non-isolated vertex $x \in V(G)$ there exists a color $c$ such that $\varphi^{-1}(c) \cap N(x)$ is odd-sized. We prove that every simple planar graph admits an odd 9-coloring, and conjecture that 5 colors always suffice.</dc:description><dc:date>2022</dc:date><dc:date>2023-01-30 09:52:27</dc:date><dc:type>Članek v reviji</dc:type><dc:identifier>144060</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>UDK: 519.17</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>ISSN pri članku: 0166-218X</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>DOI: 10.1016/j.dam.2022.07.018</dc:identifier><dc:identifier>COBISS_ID: 139308803</dc:identifier><dc:language>sl</dc:language></metadata>
