Minimum gradation in greyscales of graphs

In this paper we present the notion of greyscale of a graph as a colouring of its vertices that uses colours from the real interval [0,1]. Any greyscale induces another colouring by assigning to each edge the non-negative difference between the colours of its vertices. These edge colours are ordered...

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Autores: Castro Ochoa, Natalia de, Garrido Vizuete, María de los Angeles, Robles Arias, Rafael, Villar Liñán, María Trinidad
Formato: artículo
Estado:Versión publicada
Fecha de publicación:2023
País:España
Recursos:Universidad de Sevilla (US)
Repositorio:idUS. Depósito de Investigación de la Universidad de Sevilla
OAI Identifier:oai:idus.us.es:11441/149060
Acesso em linha:https://hdl.handle.net/11441/149060
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.disopt.2023.100773
Access Level:acceso abierto
Palavra-chave:Graph colouring
Greyscale
Minimum gradation
Graph algorithms
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Resumo:In this paper we present the notion of greyscale of a graph as a colouring of its vertices that uses colours from the real interval [0,1]. Any greyscale induces another colouring by assigning to each edge the non-negative difference between the colours of its vertices. These edge colours are ordered in lexicographical decreasing ordering and give rise to a new element of the graph: the gradation vector. We introduce the notion of minimum gradation vector as a new invariant for the graph and give polynomial algorithms to obtain it. These algorithms also output all greyscales that produce the minimum gradation vector. This way we tackle and solve a novel vectorial optimization problem in graphs that may generate more satisfactory solutions than those generated by known scalar optimization approaches.