Between coloring and list-coloring: μ-coloring

A new variation of the coloring problem, mu-coloring, is defined in this paper. A coloring of a graph G = (V,E) is a function f: V -> N such that f(v) is different from f(w) if v is adjacent to w. Given a graph G = (V,E) and a function mu: V -> N, G is mu-colorable if it admits a coloring f wi...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores: Bonomo, Flavia, Cecowski Palacio, Mariano
Tipo de recurso: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2011
País:Argentina
Institución:Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas
Repositorio:CONICET Digital (CONICET)
Idioma:inglés
OAI Identifier:oai:ri.conicet.gov.ar:11336/14910
Acceso en línea:http://hdl.handle.net/11336/14910
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palabra clave:Cographs
Coloring
List-Coloring
Μ-Coloring
M-Perfect Graphs
Perfect Graphs
https://purl.org/becyt/ford/1.1
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Sumario:A new variation of the coloring problem, mu-coloring, is defined in this paper. A coloring of a graph G = (V,E) is a function f: V -> N such that f(v) is different from f(w) if v is adjacent to w. Given a graph G = (V,E) and a function mu: V -> N, G is mu-colorable if it admits a coloring f with f(v)<= mu(v) for each v in V. It is proved that mu-coloring lies between coloring and list-coloring, in the sense of generalization of problems and computational complexity. Besides, the notion of perfection is extended to mu-coloring, giving rise to a new characterization of cographs. Finally, a polynomial time algorithm to solve mu-coloring for cographs is shown.