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Choosability in bounded sequential list coloring

Computational Complexity 2019-01-01 v1 Discrete Mathematics Combinatorics

Abstract

The list coloring problem is a variation of the classical vertex coloring problem, extensively studied in recent years, where each vertex has a restricted list of allowed colors, and having some variations as the (γ,μ)(\gamma,\mu)-coloring, where the color lists have sequential values with known lower and upper bounds. This work discusses the choosability property, that consists in determining the least number kk for which it has a proper list coloring no matter how one assigns a list of kk colors to each vertex. This is a Π2P\Pi_2^P-complete problem, however, we show that kk-(γ,μ)(\gamma,\mu)-choosability is an NPNP-problem due to its relation with the kk-coloring of a graph and application of methods of proof in choosability for some classes of graphs, such as complete bipartite graph, which is 3 3 -choosable, but 2 2 -(γ,μ)(\gamma,\mu)-choosable.

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@article{arxiv.1812.11685,
  title  = {Choosability in bounded sequential list coloring},
  author = {Simone Gama and Rosiane de Freitas and Mário Salvatierra},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1812.11685},
  year   = {2019}
}
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