Questions tagged [graph-colouring]
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Is 4-Coloring restricted to graphs with crossing number 1 NP-complete?
Planar graphs are 4-colorable.
Determining if a planar graph is 3-colorable is NP-Complete.
A graph with a crossing number 1 (graph such that it can be drawn with $\le 1$ crossing) is 5-colorable.
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How many more colours do you need if you add to $G$ a maximum matching from $G^c$?
The title says it all. Let $G$ be a (simple undirected finite) graph, and let $G^c$ be the complement of $G$ (i.e. contains edges not in $G$ and no more). Let $M$ be a perfect matching in $G^c$.
How ...
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Coloring where all colors are present in closed neighborhood of every vertex
I am interested in (proper) vertex colorings of graphs with the following condition:
for every vertex $v$ in the graph, all colors should be present in the closed neighborhood of $v$.
Is this studied ...
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A conjecture on 4-coloring maximal planar graphs
The question/task is to prove/disprove the conjecture below.
Let $G$ be a maximal planar graph with a 4-coloring $f$. Let $(a,b,c,d)$ be a cycle in $G$. Let $S$ be the collection of all $a,c$-paths in ...
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Complexity of Edge Coloring Regular Graphs With Large Degrees
There is an interesting series of papers on edge colorability / $1$-factorization of regular graphs with large degrees, which over the years have shown better and better lower bounds for the degree $\...
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Computing chromatic number of subcubic graphs
According to graphclasses.org, the chromatic number of a subcubic graph can be computed in linear time (because the decision problem COLORABILITY can be solved in linear time). The reference given the ...
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Uniquely 4-colorable Planar Graph Conjecture?
My question is on Uniquely 4-colorable Planar Graph Conjecture mentioned in
On purely tree-colorable planar graphs (and other papers of same(?) team such as "Theory on Structure and Coloring of ...
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3-colourability of Eulerian maximal planar graph
The following paragraph is from this answer by David Eppstein (emphasis mine).
A maximal planar graph is 3-colorable iff it is Eulerian (if it is not Eulerian, then the odd wheel surrounding a single ...
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Who proved that a triangulation is 3-colourable implies its dual is bipartite
Let $G$ be a maximal planar graph (also called a triangulation); i.e, $G$ is a planar graph every face of which is a triangle. It is well known that the following three statements are equivalent:
(i) $...
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Is there a planar 4-regular graph that is 3-acyclic colourable?
A colouring is said to be an acyclic colouring if there is no bicoloured cycle (i.e each cycle gets at least 3 colours).
Burstein proved that 4-regular graphs are 5-acyclic colourable. It seems to me ...
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Producing colouring of maximal planar graphs G from colouring of dual of G
A (simple) graph is said to be maximal planar if it is planar and adding one more edge loses planarity. In other words, the graph is planar and every face is a triangle. Tait gave a one-one ...
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Hardness of vertex colouring on hypergraphs with $O(\log n)$ edges
I'm interested to know whether there has been any work done on the problem in the title. For the problem to be meaningful, we would naturally need that the hyperedges must have large ($\omega(1)$) ...
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On the coloring number of small graphs with small cliques
Given a parameter $k$, and a graph $G$ with $O(k^2)$ vertices that has a maximum clique with $\le k$ vertices, I want to investigate the maximum number of colors $C(k)$ needed to properly color $G$, i....
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K-Uniform Hypergraph Strong Coloring [closed]
I want to ask if strong coloring of a k-uniform hypergraph using only k colors is NP-Hard or NP-Complete? If you can add a reference this will be helpful.
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Does distance-2 coloring fit in Telle and Proskurowski 's algorithm for partial-k trees?
This question is on "Vertex Partitioning Problems" framework of Telle and Proskurowski.
For solving problems in parital $k$-trees (i.e., graphs of bounded treewidth), the "Vertex ...
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Complexity of graph isomorphism with properly colored edges (ref. request)
An edge-colored graph $G$ is a graph whose edges are labeled with a color (generally represented by an integer). Such a coloring is proper if all adjacent edges in $G$ have different colors. I ...
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Computing the edge orbits of a graph (and discussing definitions)
A (vertex) automorphism in a graph $G=(V,E)$ is a permutation $\sigma$ of the vertices that preserves adjacency, namely $\sigma(u) \sigma(v) \in E$ if and only if $uv \in E$. The automorphisms of a ...
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3-coloring planar graphs in $O\left(3^{n^.5}\right)$?
I was wondering if the task of searching for planar 3-colorings is known to be of complexity $O\left(c^{\sqrt{n}}\right)$ or lower? This feels like it would be an intuitive consequence based from ...
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Directed Acyclic Graph partition into minimum subgraphs with a constraint
I have this problem, not sure there is a name for it, wherein a Directed Acyclic Graph has different colored nodes. The idea is to partition it into minimum number of subgraphs with the following 2 ...
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Which computational framework lies behind the Chinese “Social Credit System”?
BACKGROUND
The Social Credit System is a data-driven reputation system which draws on several sources to label various entities, namely businesses and individual citizens, with a trustworthiness ...
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“Planar graph coloring is not self-reducible” is this about all $p$-relations encoding that problem?
I have a question about the paper "Planar graph coloring is not self-reducible" by Samir Khuller and Vijay Vazirani.
The final theorem in that paper states that "Planar Graph k-coloring is not self ...
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On planar $4$ regular graphs
It is $NP$-hard to decide if a $4$-regular planar graph can be $3$-colored.
Is an exact algorithm possible that under uniform distribution is in average polynomial time?
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Difficulty of graph coloring and independent set?
Given a graph on $n$ vertices it is strongly $NP$-complete to decide it is $3$-colorable while it is easy to decide it is $n$-colorable.
Is there a parsimonious reduction from SUBSET-SUM to GRAPH-3-...
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Color shifting in a bipartite graph
Assume that we have a directed bipartite graph $G = \langle L\dot\cup R, E\rangle $. Where $E$ contains directed edges only from $L$ to $R$, that is, $E\subseteq L\times R$. Assume further that the ...
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Heuristics for exact #3COLORING close to the 3-colorability threshold
What are some fast heuristics for exactly counting 3-colorings of graphs close to or at the 3-colorability threshold? Is there literature on the average-case performance for any of these methods?
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2-hop distributed coloring in the CONGEST model
Consider a graph $G=(V,E)$ and let $d(u,v)$ denote the distance between $u$ and $v$ in $G$.
A 2-hop coloring is a mapping $c:V\to{1,\ldots, C}$ ($C$ is the number of colors) such that $d(u,v)\le 2 \...
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Is 3-coloring bounded degree graphs subexponential: $O(\exp{(\sqrt{n}\log^2{n})})$? [closed]
We got an argument that 3-coloring bounded degree graphs is subexponential
with complexity $O(\exp{(\sqrt{n}\log^2{n})})$.
The treewidth of a planar graphs on $n$ vertices is $O(\sqrt{n})$
and 3-...
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How good of an approximate 2-coloring can you get of the halved cube graph?
We say that a 2-coloring $col : V_G \rightarrow \{0, 1\}$ of a graph $G$ is $\epsilon$-approximate if $Pr_{(w, v) \in E_G}(col(w) \neq col(v)) \geq \epsilon$. For every $n$, what is the maximum $\...
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3-coloring graph zero-knowledge proof [closed]
I was researching about zero-knowledge proofs and in this link http://web.mit.edu/~ezyang/Public/graph/svg.html I've seen the exercise question:
Currently, you can only select adjacent pairs of nodes ...
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Path-width and chromatic number
How would I prove that the chromatic number of a graph $G$ is smaller than or equal to the path-width of $G$ + 1? or $\chi(G) \leq pw(G) + 1$
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Describe the condition of “non-adjacent 3-cycles” in terms of the cubic adjacency matrix
Oleg Borodin and André Raspaud
"A sufficient condition for planar graphs to be 3-colorable"
Journal of Combinatorial Theory B88, 2003, 17–27
state the following conjecture:
Conjecture 1.2:
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Hard problems for bounded vertex cover
We know that list coloring problem is W[1]-hard when parameterized by vertex cover. Are there any other problems which are also W[1]-hard parameterized by vertex cover?
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Deciding $\omega(G)>k$ when $\alpha(G)$ and $\chi(G)$ have bounds and are known
Given a $k>0$ and a graph $G(V,E)$ with known independence number $\sqrt{|V|}\leq\alpha(G)\leq\alpha\sqrt{|V|}$ and chromatic number $\frac1\beta\sqrt{|V|}\leq\chi(G)\leq\sqrt{|V|}$ for some fixed $...
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What is known about the hardness of the chromatic index for restricted graph classes?
There is a nice paper from 1991 that contains three diagrams about different graphclass-families showing what is known about the hardness of determining the chromatic index for them.
Are there any ...
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What is the recognition complexity of k-uniform k-partite hypergraphs? [duplicate]
We can easily recognize bipartite graphs, but I surprisingly couldn't find anything on the recognition complexity of 3-uniform tripartite hypergraphs, though I'm sure this has been studied.
It's also ...
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3-color a cubic graph such that a MIS receives only two colors
According to Brooks'_theorem, a cubic graph (3-regular graph) containing no $K_4$ can be properly colored by three colors. (Such a color can actually be found in linear time, which is not our primary ...
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About complexity of recovering or learning Bayesian networks
Are there complexity theoretic results about recoverability or learnability of the marginals (of the source vertices) and the conditionals (along each of the edges) of a Bayesian network from having ...
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Partition into triangles in a 3-partite graphe
Let $G=(X\cup Y\cup Z,E)$ be a 3-partite graph such that:
$|X|=|Y|=|Z|=q$.
$2 \leq d(v) \leq 6$ for all $v \in X\cup Y\cup Z$, where $d(v)$ is the degree of v.
$\sum_{x \in X} d(x)=\sum_{y \in Y}d(y)=...
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What is the complexity of the fastest method of k-coloring any graph? [closed]
I heard brute-force is the only method. Is there any other way? Is there a way to prove that the complexity cannot be exponential?
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Canonical way of coloring graphs (individualization) for isomorphism purpose
Stefan Kratsch and Pascal Schweitzer in their paper
Graph Isomorphism for Graph Classes Characterized by two Forbidden Induced Subgraphs
give a characterization of graphs on which
Graph Isomorphism ...
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Number of rounds of iterative one-round distributed color reduction
We are talking about one-round coloring algorithms for distributed graphs.
In "On the complexity of distributed graph coloring" (theorem 5.1) Kuhn and Wattenhoffer presented a one-round algorithm to ...
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NP-hardness of coloring uniform hypergraphs
Since a $2$-uniform hypergraphs are just graphs. The problem of deciding if $2$-uniform is $k$-colorable for $k=1,2$ is easy, and NP-hard for $k \geq 3$ colors. This is well know and I have seen ...
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How much is known about coloring of planar graphs with degree bounds?
Are there any references that address the following (open?) questions:
1) Is there an algorithm that 4-colors any planar graph of maximal degree at most 5 in linear time?
2) What is the largest ...
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Existence of certain graph gadget related to coloring odd hole free graph
Crossposted from MO.
Wondering about the existence of graph gadget related to coloring
(or 3-coloring) odd hole free graphs.
Let $G$ be simple $k$-chromatic connected graph with two
vertices $u,v$.
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Two paper appear to imply collapse via coloring $P_5$-free graphs
Found this from graphclasses.org.
Two papers give conflicting results for coloring $P_5$-free
graphs which appear to imply $P=NP$.
From Polynomial-time algorithm for vertex k-colorability of P_5-...
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Have these coloring games been solved?
In the paper "On the complexity of some coloring games", Bodlaender gives some open questions about the complexity of deciding if player 1 or 2 has a winning strategy in some graph coloring games. ...
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Rate of convergence of graph-theoretic quantity to fractional graph-theoretic counterpart
Let $G^n$ denote the OR product of a graph with itself $n$ times, i.e. the graph which has an edge between distinct vertices $(v_1,v_2,\ldots,v_n)$ and $(u_1,u_2,\ldots,u_n)$ if there exists some $i$ ...
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Graphs whose maximal clique intersection graph has bounded chromatic number
In general,
The chromatic number of the clique intersection graph a graph can again be arbitrarily high.
For example, take $n$ maximal cliques of size $n$ such that every pair of maximal cliques has ...
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General Results for Complicated Constraint Satisfaction Problem
Consider the following problem: on a finite two-dimensional grid (say the grid points are vertices of a graph), I need to color the vertices in such a way to satisfy the existence and nonexistence of ...
