\documentclass[12pt]{article} \usepackage{amsmath,mathrsfs,bbm} \usepackage{amssymb} \textwidth=4.825in \overfullrule=0pt \thispagestyle{empty} \begin{document} \noindent % % {\bf Saieed Akbari, Vahid Liaghat and Afshin Nikzad} % % \medskip \noindent % % {\bf Colorful Paths in Vertex Coloring of Graphs} % % \vskip 5mm \noindent % % % % \newcommand{\cpath}[1]{$#1$-{colorful path}}% A colorful path in a graph $G$ is a path with $\chi(G)$ vertices whose colors are different. A \cpath{v} is such a path, starting from $v$. Let $G\neq C_7$ be a connected graph with maximum degree $\Delta(G)$. We show that there exists a $(\Delta(G)+1)$-coloring of $G$ with a \cpath{v} for every $v\in V(G)$. We also prove that this result is true if one replaces $(\Delta(G)+1)$ colors with $2\chi(G)$ colors. If $\chi(G)=\omega(G)$, then the result still holds for $\chi(G)$ colors. For every graph $G$, we show that there exists a $\chi(G)$-coloring of $G$ with a rainbow path of length $\lfloor\chi(G)/2\rfloor$ starting from each $v \in V(G)$. \end{document} .