Defective coloring is a concept in graph theory, which is a branch of mathematics and computer science that studies the properties and applications of graphs. In a defective coloring of a graph, the aim is to assign colors to the vertices of the graph such that no two adjacent vertices share the same color, with the allowance that vertices can have neighbors (adjacent vertices) that share the same color—this is where the term "defective" comes from.
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