Vertex coloring and multicoloring of graphs are a well known subject in graph
theory, as well as their applications. In vertex multicoloring, each vertex is
assigned some subset of a given set of colors. Here we propose a new kind of
vertex multicoloring, motivated by the situation of sharing a secret and
securing it from the actions of some number of attackers. We name the
multicoloring a highly a-resistant vertex k-multicoloring, where a is the
number of the attackers, and k the number of colors. For small values a we
determine what is the minimal number of vertices a graph must have in order to
allow such a coloring, and what is the minimal number of colors needed.Comment: 19 pages, 5 figure
