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We consider the polychromatic coloring problems for unions of two or more geometric hypergraphs on the same vertex sets of points in the plane. We show, inter alia, that the union of bottomless rectangles and horizontal strips does in…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-12-07 Vera Chekan , Torsten Ueckerdt

An asymmetric coloring of a graph is a coloring of its vertices that is not preserved by any non-identity automorphism of the graph. The motion of a graph is the minimal degree of its automorphism group, i.e., the minimum number of elements…

Group Theory · Mathematics 2021-11-16 Laszlo Babai

The notions of bounded expansion and nowhere denseness not only offer robust and general definitions of uniform sparseness of graphs, they also describe the tractability boundary for several important algorithmic questions. In this paper we…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2019-09-25 Wojciech Nadara , Marcin Pilipczuk , Roman Rabinovich , Felix Reidl , Sebastian Siebertz

Graph colouring is a combinatorial optimisation problem with applications in several important domains, including sports scheduling, cartography, street map navigation, and timetabling. It is also of significant theoretical interest and a…

History and Overview · Mathematics 2026-02-23 Rhyd Lewis

In this work we study approximation algorithms for the \textit{Bounded Color Matching} problem (a.k.a. Restricted Matching problem) which is defined as follows: given a graph in which each edge $e$ has a color $c_e$ and a profit $p_e \in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2013-11-22 Monaldo Mastrolilli , Georgios Stamoulis

We show that the combinatorial matter of graph coloring is, in fact, quantum in the sense of satisfying the sum over all the possible intermediate state properties of a path integral. In our case, the topological field theory (TFT) with…

Quantum Algebra · Mathematics 2024-10-02 Amit Kumar

We present new results on approximate colourings of graphs and, more generally, approximate H-colourings and promise constraint satisfaction problems. First, we show NP-hardness of colouring $k$-colourable graphs with $\binom{k}{\lfloor…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2022-07-05 Marcin Wrochna , Stanislav Živný

We give an almost complete characterization of the hardness of $c$-coloring $\chi$-chromatic graphs with distributed algorithms, for a wide range of models of distributed computing. In particular, we show that these problems do not admit…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2024-03-25 Xavier Coiteux-Roy , Francesco d'Amore , Rishikesh Gajjala , Fabian Kuhn , François Le Gall , Henrik Lievonen , Augusto Modanese , Marc-Olivier Renou , Gustav Schmid , Jukka Suomela

In this paper we have given a unified graph coloring algorithm for planar graphs. The problems that have been considered in this context respectively, are vertex, edge, total and entire colorings of the planar graphs. The main tool in the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2007-11-27 I. Cahit

Motivated by the definition of linear coloring on simplicial complexes, recently introduced in the context of algebraic topology \cite{Civan}, and the framework through which it was studied, we introduce the linear coloring on graphs. We…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2008-07-29 Kyriaki Ioannidou , Stavros D. Nikolopoulos

Given an edge-colored graph, the goal of the proportional fair matching problem is to find a maximum weight matching while ensuring proportional representation (with respect to the number of edges) of each color. The colors may correspond…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-12-17 Sharmila Duppala , Nathaniel Grammel , Juan Luque , Calum MacRury , Aravind Srinivasan

The $\mathcal{H}$-coloring problem for undirected simple graphs is a computational problem from a huge class of the constraint satisfaction problems (CSP): an $\mathcal{H}$-coloring of a graph $\mathcal{G}$ is just a homomorphism from…

Logic · Mathematics 2020-10-07 Azza Gaysin

Coloring problems in graphs have been used to model a wide range of real applications. In particular, the List Coloring Problem generalizes the well-known Graph Coloring Problem for which many exact algorithms have been developed. In this…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Mauro Lucci , Graciela Nasini , Daniel Severín

The problem of efficiently coloring $3$-colorable graphs with few colors has received much attention on both the algorithmic and inapproximability fronts. We consider exponential time approximations, in which given a parameter $r$, we aim…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-06-25 Venkatesan Guruswami , Rhea Jain

List colouring is an NP-complete decision problem even if the total number of colours is three. It is hard even on planar bipartite graphs. We give a polynomial-time algorithm for solving list colouring of permutation graphs with a bounded…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2012-06-25 Jessica Enright , Lorna Stewart , Gabor Tardos

Consider a graph whose vertices are colored in one of two colors, say black or white. A white vertex is called integrated if it has at least as many black neighbors as white neighbors, and similarly for a black vertex. The coloring as a…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-06-10 Charles Burnette , Broden Caton , Olivia Coward , Julian Davis , Austin Teter

We present a means of formulating and solving graph coloring problems with probabilistic graphical models. In contrast to the prevalent literature that uses factor graphs for this purpose, we instead approach it from a cluster graph…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-10-06 Simon Streicher , Johan du Preez

We consider the problem of coloring k-colorable graphs with the fewest possible colors. We present a randomized polynomial time algorithm that colors a 3-colorable graph on $n$ vertices with min O(Delta^{1/3} log^{1/2} Delta log n),…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2007-05-23 David Karger , Rajeev Motwani , Madhu Sudan

We study the family of intersection graphs of low density objects in low dimensional Euclidean space. This family is quite general, and includes planar graphs. We prove that such graphs have small separators. Next, we present efficient…

Computational Geometry · Computer Science 2016-06-01 Sariel Har-Peled , Kent Quanrud

We reprove the results on the hardness of approximating hypergraph coloring using a different technique based on bounds on the size of extremal $t$-agreeing families of $[q]^n$. Specifically, using theorems of Frankl-Tokushige [FT99],…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2019-04-03 Per Austrin , Amey Bhangale , Aditya Potukuchi