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A Dichotomy Theorem for Circular Colouring Reconfiguration

Combinatorics 2016-04-14 v2 Computational Complexity Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

The "reconfiguration problem" for circular colourings asks, given two (p,q)(p,q)-colourings ff and gg of a graph GG, is it possible to transform ff into gg by changing the colour of one vertex at a time such that every intermediate mapping is a (p,q)(p,q)-colouring? We show that this problem can be solved in polynomial time for 2p/q<42\leq p/q <4 and is PSPACE-complete for p/q4p/q\geq 4. This generalizes a known dichotomy theorem for reconfiguring classical graph colourings.

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@article{arxiv.1508.05573,
  title  = {A Dichotomy Theorem for Circular Colouring Reconfiguration},
  author = {Richard C. Brewster and Sean McGuinness and Benjamin Moore and Jonathan A. Noel},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.05573},
  year   = {2016}
}

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22 pages, 5 figures

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