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Lower bounds for on-line graph colorings

Combinatorics 2021-12-17 v2 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

We propose two strategies for Presenter in on-line graph coloring games. The first one constructs bipartite graphs and forces any on-line coloring algorithm to use 2log2n102\log_2 n - 10 colors, where nn is the number of vertices in the constructed graph. This is best possible up to an additive constant. The second strategy constructs graphs that contain neither C3C_3 nor C5C_5 as a subgraph and forces Ω(nlogn13)\Omega(\frac{n}{\log n}^\frac{1}{3}) colors. The best known on-line coloring algorithm for these graphs uses O(n12)O(n^{\frac{1}{2}}) colors.

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@article{arxiv.1404.7259,
  title  = {Lower bounds for on-line graph colorings},
  author = {Grzegorz Gutowski and Jakub Kozik and Piotr Micek and Xuding Zhu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1404.7259},
  year   = {2021}
}
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