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Dichotomies properties on computational complexity of S-packing coloring problems

Discrete Mathematics 2015-01-30 v3 Computational Complexity Combinatorics

Abstract

This work establishes the complexity class of several instances of the S-packing coloring problem: for a graph G, a positive integer k and a non decreasing list of integers S = (s\_1 , ..., s\_k ), G is S-colorable, if its vertices can be partitioned into sets S\_i , i = 1,... , k, where each S\_i being a s\_i -packing (a set of vertices at pairwise distance greater than s\_i). For a list of three integers, a dichotomy between NP-complete problems and polynomial time solvable problems is determined for subcubic graphs. Moreover, for an unfixed size of list, the complexity of the S-packing coloring problem is determined for several instances of the problem. These properties are used in order to prove a dichotomy between NP-complete problems and polynomial time solvable problems for lists of at most four integers.

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@article{arxiv.1312.5280,
  title  = {Dichotomies properties on computational complexity of S-packing coloring problems},
  author = {Nicolas Gastineau},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1312.5280},
  year   = {2015}
}
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