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The goal of this work is to give precise bounds on the counting complexity of a family of generalized coloring problems (list homomorphisms) on bounded-treewidth graphs. Given graphs $G$, $H$, and lists $L(v)\subseteq V(H)$ for every $v\in…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2021-11-01 Jacob Focke , Dániel Marx , Paweł Rzążewski

We completely classify the computational complexity of the list H-colouring problem for graphs (with possible loops) in combinatorial and algebraic terms: for every graph H the problem is either NP-complete, NL-complete, L-complete or is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-02-03 Laszlo Egri , Andrei Krokhin , Benoit Larose , Pascal Tesson

The reconfiguration graph of the $k$-colorings of a graph $G$, denoted $R_{k}(G)$, is the graph whose vertices are the $k$-colorings of $G$ and two colorings are adjacent in $R_{k}(G)$ if they differ in color on exactly one vertex. A graph…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-02-19 Manoj Belavadi , Kathie Cameron , Ni Luh Dewi Sintiari

Given a graph $H$ and a positive integer $k$, the {\it $k$-colored Ramsey number} $R_k(H)$ is the minimum integer $n$ such that in every $k$-edge-coloring of the complete graph $K_{n}$, there is a monochromatic copy of $H$. Given two graphs…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-07 Xihe Li , Xiangxiang Liu

This work investigates structural and computational aspects of list-based graph coloring under interval constraints. Building on the framework of analogous and p-analogous problems, we show that classical List Coloring, $\mu$-coloring, and…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-12-22 Simone Ingrid Monteiro Gama , Rosiane de Freitas Rodrigues

List k-Coloring (Li k-Col) is the decision problem asking if a given graph admits a proper coloring compatible with a given list assignment to its vertices with colors in {1,2,..,k}. The problem is known to be NP-hard even for k=3 within…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2020-02-10 Josep Díaz , Öznur Yaşar Diner , Maria Serna , Oriol Serra

A polynomial time algorithm that determines for a fixed integer k whether or not a P5-free graph can be k-colored is presented in this paper. If such a coloring exists, the algorithm will produce a valid k-coloring.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2007-05-23 C. T. Hoang , J. Sawada , X. Shu

In this paper we resolve the complexity of the isomorphism problem on all but finitely many of the graph classes characterized by two forbidden induced subgraphs. To this end we develop new techniques applicable for the structural and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-11-10 Pascal Schweitzer

A biclique of a graph G is an induced complete bipartite graph. A star of G is a biclique contained in the closed neighborhood of a vertex. A star (biclique) k-coloring of G is a k-coloring of G that contains no monochromatic maximal stars…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-08-18 Marina Groshaus , Francisco J. Soulignac , Pablo Terlisky

We prove that the class of $(K_t,sP_1+P_5)$-free graphs has bounded mim-width for every $s\geq 0$ and $t\geq 1$, and that there is a polynomial-time algorithm that, given a graph in the class, computes a branch decomposition of constant…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-04-27 Nick Brettell , Jake Horsfield , Daniel Paulusma

For a connected graph $G=(V,E)$, a matching $M\subseteq E$ is a matching cut of $G$ if $G-M$ is disconnected. It is known that for an integer $d$, the corresponding decision problem Matching Cut is polynomial-time solvable for graphs of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-07-18 Felicia Lucke , Daniël Paulusma , Bernard Ries

For graph classes $P_1,...,P_k$, Generalized Graph Coloring is the problem of deciding whether the vertex set of a given graph $G$ can be partitioned into subsets $V_1,...,V_k$ so that $V_j$ induces a graph in the class $P_j$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-05-23 Vladimir E. Alekseev , Alastair Farrugia , Vadim V. Lozin

We study the complexity of a class of promise graph homomorphism problems. For a fixed graph H, the H-colouring problem is to decide whether a given graph has a homomorphism to H. By a result of Hell and Ne\v{s}et\v{r}il, this problem is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2025-04-11 Sergey Avvakumov , Marek Filakovský , Jakub Opršal , Gianluca Tasinato , Uli Wagner

The Surjective Homomorphism problem is to test whether a given graph G called the guest graph allows a vertex-surjective homomorphism to some other given graph H called the host graph. The bijective and injective homomorphism problems can…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2016-12-16 Petr A. Golovach , Bernard Lidický , Barnaby Martin , Daniël Paulusma

A graph is $H$-free if it does not contain an induced subgraph isomorphic to $H$. For every integer $k$ and every graph $H$, we determine the computational complexity of $k$-Edge Colouring for $H$-free graphs.

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-10-11 Esther Galby , Paloma T. Lima , Daniel Paulusma , Bernard Ries

We consider the complexity of counting homomorphisms from an $r$-uniform hypergraph $G$ to a symmetric $r$-ary relation $H$. We give a dichotomy theorem for $r>2$, showing for which $H$ this problem is in FP and for which $H$ it is…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2010-01-04 Martin Dyer , Leslie Ann Goldberg , Mark Jerrum

For a fixed graph $H$, in the List $H$-Coloring problem, we are given a graph $G$ along with list $L(v) \subseteq V(H)$ for every $v \in V(G)$, and we have to determine if there exists a list homomorphism $\varphi$ from $(G,L)$ to $H$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-07-28 Marta Piecyk , Astrid Pieterse , Paweł Rzążewski , Magnus Wahlström

A (proper) colouring is acyclic, star, or injective if any two colour classes induce a forest, star forest or disjoint union of vertices and edges, respectively. Hence, every injective colouring is a star colouring and every star colouring…

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For given graph $H$ and graphical property $P$, the conditional chromatic number $\chi(H,P)$ of $H$, is the smallest number $k$, so that $V(H)$ can be decomposed into sets $V_1,V_2,\ldots, V_k$, in which $H[V_i]$ satisfies the property $P$,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-19 Yaser Rowshan

We study the space complexity of four variants of the standard subgraph finding problem in the streaming model. Specifically, given an $n$-vertex input graph and a fixed-size pattern graph, we consider two settings: undirected simple…

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