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Closed Neighborhood Balanced k-Coloring of Graphs

Maurice Almeida·Ravindra Pawar·Siddharth Gupta·Tarkeshwar Singh
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For a simple graph G = (V, E) and a positive integer k greater than or equal to 2, a coloring of vertices of G using exactly k colors such that every vertex has an equal number of vertices of each color in its closed neighborhood is called closed neighborhood-balanced k-coloring, and the graph which admits such a coloring is called closed neighborhood balanced k-colored graph. We derive some necessary/sufficient conditions for a graph to admit a closed neighborhood balanced k-coloring and discuss various graph operations involving such graphs. Furthermore, we prove that there is no forbidden subgraph characterization for the class of closed neighborhood-balanced k-colorable graphs.

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Maurice Almeida, Ravindra Pawar, Siddharth Gupta, Tarkeshwar Singh. 2025-10-18. Closed Neighborhood Balanced k-Coloring of Graphs. https://arxiv.org/abs/2510.16666

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