coloring
A coloring of a set by is just a function . The term coloring is used because the function can be thought of as assigning a “color” from to each element of .
Any coloring provides a partition of : for each , , the set of elements such that , is one element of the partition. Since is a function, the sets in the partition are disjoint, and since it is a total function, their union is .
Title | coloring |
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Canonical name | Coloring |
Date of creation | 2013-03-22 12:55:43 |
Last modified on | 2013-03-22 12:55:43 |
Owner | Henry (455) |
Last modified by | Henry (455) |
Numerical id | 5 |
Author | Henry (455) |
Entry type | Definition |
Classification | msc 05D10 |
Synonym | colouring |
Related topic | Partition |
Related topic | GraphTheory |