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Hierarchical Colorings of Cographs

Combinatorics 2019-06-25 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Cographs are exactly hereditarily well-colored graphs, i.e., the graphs for which a greedy coloring of every induced subgraph uses only the minimally necessary number of colors χ(G)\chi(G). In recent work on reciprocal best match graphs so-called hierarchically coloring play an important role. Here we show that greedy colorings are a special case of hierarchical coloring, which also require no more than χ(G)\chi(G) colors.

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@article{arxiv.1906.10031,
  title  = {Hierarchical Colorings of Cographs},
  author = {D. I. Valdivia and M. Geiß and M. Hellmuth and M. Hernandez Rosales and P. F. Stadler},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1906.10031},
  year   = {2019}
}