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Three-coloring triangle-free graphs on surfaces V. Coloring planar graphs with distant anomalies
We settle a problem of Havel by showing that there exists an absolute
constant d such that if G is a planar graph in which every two distinct
triangles are at distance at least d, then G is 3-colorable. In fact, we prove
a more general theorem. Let G be a planar graph, and let H be a set of
connected subgraphs of G, each of bounded size, such that every two distinct
members of H are at least a specified distance apart and all triangles of G are
contained in \bigcup{H}. We give a sufficient condition for the existence of a
3-coloring phi of G such that for every B\in H, the restriction of phi to B is
constrained in a specified way.Comment: 26 pages, no figures. Updated presentatio
Conflict-Free Coloring of Intersection Graphs of Geometric Objects
In FOCS'2002, Even et al. introduced and studied the notion of conflict-free
colorings of geometrically defined hypergraphs. They motivated it by frequency
assignment problems in cellular networks. This notion has been extensively
studied since then.
A conflict-free coloring of a graph is a coloring of its vertices such that
the neighborhood (pointed or closed) of each vertex contains a vertex whose
color differs from the colors of all other vertices in that neighborhood. In
this paper we study conflict-colorings of intersection graphs of geometric
objects. We show that any intersection graph of n pseudo-discs in the plane
admits a conflict-free coloring with O(\log n) colors, with respect to both
closed and pointed neighborhoods. We also show that the latter bound is
asymptotically sharp. Using our methods, we also obtain a strengthening of the
two main results of Even et al. which we believe is of independent interest. In
particular, in view of the original motivation to study such colorings, this
strengthening suggests further applications to frequency assignment in wireless
networks.
Finally, we present bounds on the number of colors needed for conflict-free
colorings of other classes of intersection graphs, including intersection
graphs of axis-parallel rectangles and of \rho-fat objects in the plane.Comment: 18 page
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