Distinguishing coloring

ID: distinguishing-coloring

Distinguishing coloring is a concept in graph theory used to color the vertices of a graph in such a way that no nontrivial automorphism of the graph can preserve the coloring. In simpler terms, a distinguishing coloring helps differentiate the vertices of a graph based on their colors, thereby preventing any symmetry in the graph from mapping vertices of the same color onto each other.

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