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Data Reduction for Graph Coloring Problems
This paper studies the kernelization complexity of graph coloring problems
with respect to certain structural parameterizations of the input instances. We
are interested in how well polynomial-time data reduction can provably shrink
instances of coloring problems, in terms of the chosen parameter. It is well
known that deciding 3-colorability is already NP-complete, hence parameterizing
by the requested number of colors is not fruitful. Instead, we pick up on a
research thread initiated by Cai (DAM, 2003) who studied coloring problems
parameterized by the modification distance of the input graph to a graph class
on which coloring is polynomial-time solvable; for example parameterizing by
the number k of vertex-deletions needed to make the graph chordal. We obtain
various upper and lower bounds for kernels of such parameterizations of
q-Coloring, complementing Cai's study of the time complexity with respect to
these parameters.
Our results show that the existence of polynomial kernels for q-Coloring
parameterized by the vertex-deletion distance to a graph class F is strongly
related to the existence of a function f(q) which bounds the number of vertices
which are needed to preserve the NO-answer to an instance of q-List-Coloring on
F.Comment: Author-accepted manuscript of the article that will appear in the FCT
2011 special issue of Information & Computatio
Best and worst case permutations for random online domination of the path
We study a randomized algorithm for graph domination, by which, according to
a uniformly chosen permutation, vertices are revealed and added to the
dominating set if not already dominated. We determine the expected size of the
dominating set produced by the algorithm for the path graph and use this
to derive the expected size for some related families of graphs. We then
provide a much-refined analysis of the worst and best cases of this algorithm
on and enumerate the permutations for which the algorithm has the
worst-possible performance and best-possible performance. The case of
dominating the path graph has connections to previous work of Bouwer and Star,
and of Gessel on greedily coloring the path.Comment: 13 pages, 1 figur
Efficient and Perfect domination on circular-arc graphs
Given a graph , a \emph{perfect dominating set} is a subset of
vertices such that each vertex is
dominated by exactly one vertex . An \emph{efficient dominating set}
is a perfect dominating set where is also an independent set. These
problems are usually posed in terms of edges instead of vertices. Both
problems, either for the vertex or edge variant, remains NP-Hard, even when
restricted to certain graphs families. We study both variants of the problems
for the circular-arc graphs, and show efficient algorithms for all of them
Fine structure of 4-critical triangle-free graphs I. Planar graphs with two triangles and 3-colorability of chains
Aksenov proved that in a planar graph G with at most one triangle, every
precoloring of a 4-cycle can be extended to a 3-coloring of G. We give an exact
characterization of planar graphs with two triangles in that some precoloring
of a 4-cycle does not extend. We apply this characterization to solve the
precoloring extension problem from two 4-cycles in a triangle-free planar graph
in the case that the precolored 4-cycles are separated by many disjoint
4-cycles. The latter result is used in followup papers to give detailed
information about the structure of 4-critical triangle-free graphs embedded in
a fixed surface.Comment: 38 pages, 6 figures; corrections from the review proces
(Total) Vector Domination for Graphs with Bounded Branchwidth
Given a graph of order and an -dimensional non-negative
vector , called demand vector, the vector domination
(resp., total vector domination) is the problem of finding a minimum
such that every vertex in (resp., in ) has
at least neighbors in . The (total) vector domination is a
generalization of many dominating set type problems, e.g., the dominating set
problem, the -tuple dominating set problem (this is different from the
solution size), and so on, and its approximability and inapproximability have
been studied under this general framework. In this paper, we show that a
(total) vector domination of graphs with bounded branchwidth can be solved in
polynomial time. This implies that the problem is polynomially solvable also
for graphs with bounded treewidth. Consequently, the (total) vector domination
problem for a planar graph is subexponential fixed-parameter tractable with
respectto , where is the size of solution.Comment: 16 page
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