209 research outputs found
Exhaustive generation of -critical -free graphs
We describe an algorithm for generating all -critical -free
graphs, based on a method of Ho\`{a}ng et al. Using this algorithm, we prove
that there are only finitely many -critical -free graphs, for
both and . We also show that there are only finitely many
-critical graphs -free graphs. For each case of these cases we
also give the complete lists of critical graphs and vertex-critical graphs.
These results generalize previous work by Hell and Huang, and yield certifying
algorithms for the -colorability problem in the respective classes.
Moreover, we prove that for every , the class of 4-critical planar
-free graphs is finite. We also determine all 27 4-critical planar
-free graphs.
We also prove that every -free graph of girth at least five is
3-colorable, and determine the smallest 4-chromatic -free graph of
girth five. Moreover, we show that every -free graph of girth at least
six and every -free graph of girth at least seven is 3-colorable. This
strengthens results of Golovach et al.Comment: 17 pages, improved girth results. arXiv admin note: text overlap with
arXiv:1504.0697
List coloring in the absence of a linear forest.
The k-Coloring problem is to decide whether a graph can be colored with at most k colors such that no two adjacent vertices receive the same color. The Listk-Coloring problem requires in addition that every vertex u must receive a color from some given set L(u)⊆{1,…,k}. Let Pn denote the path on n vertices, and G+H and rH the disjoint union of two graphs G and H and r copies of H, respectively. For any two fixed integers k and r, we show that Listk-Coloring can be solved in polynomial time for graphs with no induced rP1+P5, hereby extending the result of Hoàng, Kamiński, Lozin, Sawada and Shu for graphs with no induced P5. Our result is tight; we prove that for any graph H that is a supergraph of P1+P5 with at least 5 edges, already List 5-Coloring is NP-complete for graphs with no induced H
Approximately coloring graphs without long induced paths
It is an open problem whether the 3-coloring problem can be solved in
polynomial time in the class of graphs that do not contain an induced path on
vertices, for fixed . We propose an algorithm that, given a 3-colorable
graph without an induced path on vertices, computes a coloring with
many colors. If the input graph is
triangle-free, we only need many
colors. The running time of our algorithm is if the input
graph has vertices and edges
The inapproximability for the (0,1)-additive number
An
{\it additive labeling} of a graph is a function , such that for every two adjacent vertices and of , ( means that is joined to ). The {\it additive number} of ,
denoted by , is the minimum number such that has a additive
labeling . The {\it additive
choosability} of a graph , denoted by , is the smallest
number such that has an additive labeling for any assignment of lists
of size to the vertices of , such that the label of each vertex belongs
to its own list.
Seamone (2012) \cite{a80} conjectured that for every graph , . We give a negative answer to this conjecture and we show that
for every there is a graph such that .
A {\it -additive labeling} of a graph is a function , such that for every two adjacent vertices and
of , .
A graph may lack any -additive labeling. We show that it is -complete to decide whether a -additive labeling exists for
some families of graphs such as perfect graphs and planar triangle-free graphs.
For a graph with some -additive labelings, the -additive
number of is defined as where is the set of -additive labelings of .
We prove that given a planar graph that admits a -additive labeling, for
all , approximating the -additive number within is -hard.Comment: 14 pages, 3 figures, Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer
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Complexity of Coloring Graphs without Paths and Cycles
Let and denote a path on vertices and a cycle on
vertices, respectively. In this paper we study the -coloring problem for
-free graphs. Maffray and Morel, and Bruce, Hoang and Sawada,
have proved that 3-colorability of -free graphs has a finite forbidden
induced subgraphs characterization, while Hoang, Moore, Recoskie, Sawada, and
Vatshelle have shown that -colorability of -free graphs for
does not. These authors have also shown, aided by a computer search, that
4-colorability of -free graphs does have a finite forbidden induced
subgraph characterization. We prove that for any , the -colorability of
-free graphs has a finite forbidden induced subgraph
characterization. We provide the full lists of forbidden induced subgraphs for
and . As an application, we obtain certifying polynomial time
algorithms for 3-coloring and 4-coloring -free graphs. (Polynomial
time algorithms have been previously obtained by Golovach, Paulusma, and Song,
but those algorithms are not certifying); To complement these results we show
that in most other cases the -coloring problem for -free
graphs is NP-complete. Specifically, for we show that -coloring is
NP-complete for -free graphs when and ; for we show that -coloring is NP-complete for -free graphs
when , ; and additionally, for , we show that
-coloring is also NP-complete for -free graphs if and
. This is the first systematic study of the complexity of the
-coloring problem for -free graphs. We almost completely
classify the complexity for the cases when , and
identify the last three open cases
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