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The black-and-white coloring problem on distance hereditary graphs and strongly chordal graphs

Combinatorics 2011-11-07 v1 Data Structures and Algorithms

Abstract

Given a graph G and integers b and w. The black-and-white coloring problem asks if there exist disjoint sets of vertices B and W with |B|=b and |W|=w such that no vertex in B is adjacent to any vertex in W. In this paper we show that the problem is polynomial when restricted to cographs, distance-hereditary graphs, interval graphs and strongly chordal graphs. We show that the problem is NP-complete on splitgraphs.

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@article{arxiv.1111.0867,
  title  = {The black-and-white coloring problem on distance hereditary graphs and strongly chordal graphs},
  author = {Ton Kloks and Sheung-Hung Poon and Feng-Ren Tsai and Yue-Li Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1111.0867},
  year   = {2011}
}