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We study the {edge-coloring} problem in the message-passing model of distributed computing. This is one of the most fundamental and well-studied problems in this area. Currently, the best-known deterministic algorithms for (2Delta…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2015-03-17 Leonid Barenboim , Michael Elkin

Several recent results from dynamic and sublinear graph coloring are surveyed. This problem is widely studied and has motivating applications like network topology control, constraint satisfaction, and real-time resource scheduling. Graph…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-01-13 Noam Benson-Tilsen

A well-studied coloring problem is to assign colors to the edges of a graph $G$ so that, for every pair of vertices, all edges of at least one shortest path between them receive different colors. The minimum number of colors necessary in…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-01-17 L. Sunil Chandran , Anita Das , Davis Issac , Erik Jan van Leeuwen

In this paper, we initiate the study of the vertex coloring problem of a graph in the semi streaming model. In this model, the input graph is defined by a stream of edges, arriving in adversarial order and any algorithm must process the…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2018-07-26 Suman Kalyan Bera , Prantar Ghosh

Given a graph $G$, an edge-coloring is an assignment of colors to edges of $G$ such that any two edges sharing an endpoint receive different colors. By Vizing's celebrated theorem, any graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ needs at least…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-05-04 Soheil Behnezhad , Mohammad Saneian

Over the years, there has been extensive work on fully dynamic algorithms for classic graph problems that admit greedy solutions. Examples include $(\Delta+1)$ vertex coloring, maximal independent set, and maximal matching. For all three…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Soheil Behnezhad , Rajmohan Rajaraman , Omer Wasim

Recoloring a graph is about finding a sequence of proper colorings of this graph from an initial coloring $\sigma$ to a target coloring $\eta$. Adding the constraint that each pair of consecutive colorings must differ on exactly one vertex,…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-09-27 Nicolas Bousquet , Laurent Feuilloley , Marc Heinrich , Mikaël Rabie

Brooks' theorem states that all connected graphs but odd cycles and cliques can be colored with $\Delta$ colors, where $\Delta$ is the maximum degree of the graph. Such colorings have been shown to admit non-trivial distributed algorithms…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-03-07 Yann Bourreau , Sebastian Brandt , Alexandre Nolin

A celebrated result of Johansson in graph theory states that every triangle-free graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be properly colored with $O(\Delta/\ln\Delta)$ colors, improving upon the "greedy bound" of $\Delta+1$ coloring in general…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2026-04-23 Sepehr Assadi , Helia Yazdanyar

We present trade-offs in the incremental and fully dynamic settings to maintian a proper coloring. For any fully dynamic $2$-coloring algorithm, the maximum of the update time, number of recolorings, and query time is $\Omega(\log n)$. We…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2020-02-28 Manas Jyoti Kashyop , N. S. Narayanaswamy , Meghana Nasre , Sai Mohith Potluri

Recent papers [Ber'2022], [GP'2020], [DHZ'2019] have addressed different variants of the (\Delta + 1)-edge colouring problem by concatenating or gluing together many Vizing chains to form what Bernshteyn [Ber'2022] coined \emph{multi-step…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-03-30 Aleksander B G Christiansen

We give improved algorithms for maintaining edge-orientations of a fully-dynamic graph, such that the out-degree of each vertex is bounded. On one hand, we show how to orient the edges such that the out-degree of each vertex is proportional…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2023-02-16 Aleksander B. G. Christiansen , Jacob Holm , Ivor van der Hoog , Eva Rotenberg , Chris Schwiegelshohn

Vizing's theorem states that any $n$-vertex $m$-edge graph of maximum degree $\Delta$ can be {\em edge colored} using at most $\Delta + 1$ different colors [Diskret.~Analiz, '64]. Vizing's original proof is algorithmic and shows that such…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2024-05-27 Sayan Bhattacharya , Din Carmon , Martín Costa , Shay Solomon , Tianyi Zhang

In vertex recoloring, we are given $n$ vertices with their initial coloring, and edges arrive in an online fashion. The algorithm must maintain a valid coloring by recoloring vertices, at a cost. The problem abstracts a scenario of job…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-13 Boaz Patt-Shamir , Adi Rosen , Seeun William Umboh

The problem of sampling edge-colorings of graphs with maximum degree $\Delta$ has received considerable attention and efficient algorithms are available when the number of colors is large enough with respect to $\Delta$. Vizing's theorem…

Data Structures and Algorithms · Computer Science 2025-01-22 Lucas De Meyer , František Kardoš , Aurélie Lagoutte , Guillem Perarnau

The $\Delta$-vertex coloring problem has become one of the prototypical problems for understanding the complexity of local distributed graph problems on constant-degree graphs. The major open problem is whether the problem can be solved…

Distributed, Parallel, and Cluster Computing · Computer Science 2025-04-08 Manuel Jakob , Yannic Maus

This paper studies sufficient conditions to obtain efficient distributed algorithms coloring graphs optimally (i.e.\ with the minimum number of colors) in the LOCAL model of computation. Most of the work on distributed vertex coloring so…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-01-25 Étienne Bamas , Louis Esperet

In this paper we study the problem of coloring a unit interval graph which changes dynamically. In our model the unit intervals are added or removed one at the time, and have to be colored immediately, so that no two overlapping intervals…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2022-02-17 Bartłomiej Bosek , Anna Zych-Pawlewicz

The {\em acyclic chromatic number} of a graph is the least number of colors needed to properly color its vertices so that none of its cycles has only two colors. The {\em acyclic chromatic index} is the analogous graph parameter for edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2024-10-15 Lefteris Kirousis , John Livieratos

In this paper we consider a variation of a recoloring problem, called the Color-Fixing. Let us have some non-proper $r$-coloring $\varphi$ of a graph $G$. We investigate the problem of finding a proper $r$-coloring of $G$, which is "the…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-11-15 Valentin Garnero , Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski , Mathieu Liedloff , Pedro Montealegre , Paweł Rzążewski