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A dichotomy theorem for $\Gamma$-switchable $H$-colouring on $m$-edge coloured graphs

Combinatorics 2025-01-24 v2 Computational Complexity

Abstract

Let GG be a graph in which each edge is assigned one of the colours 1,2,,m1, 2, \ldots, m, and let Γ\Gamma be a subgroup of SmS_m. The operation of switching at a vertex xx of GG with respect to an element π\pi of Γ\Gamma permutes the colours of the edges incident with xx according to π\pi. We investigate the complexity of whether there exists a sequence of switches that transforms a given mm-edge coloured graph GG so that it has a colour-preserving homomorphism to a fixed mm-edge coloured graph HH and give a dichotomy theorem in the case that Γ\Gamma acts transitively.

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@article{arxiv.2306.05962,
  title  = {A dichotomy theorem for $\Gamma$-switchable $H$-colouring on $m$-edge coloured graphs},
  author = {Richard Brewster and Arnott Kidner and Gary MacGillivray},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2306.05962},
  year   = {2025}
}

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17 pages, 2 figures

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