3-Coloring $C_4$ or $C_3$-free Diameter Two Graphs
Data Structures and Algorithms
2023-07-28 v1 Discrete Mathematics
Combinatorics
Abstract
The question of whether 3-Coloring can be solved in polynomial-time for the diameter two graphs is a well-known open problem in the area of algorithmic graph theory. We study the problem restricted to graph classes that avoid cycles of given lengths as induced subgraphs. Martin et. al. [CIAC 2021] showed that the problem is polynomial-time solvable for -free or -free graphs, and, -free graphs where . We extend their result proving that it is polynomial-time solvable for -free graphs, for any constant , and for -free graphs. Our results also hold for the more general problem List 3-Colouring.
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@article{arxiv.2307.15036,
title = {3-Coloring $C_4$ or $C_3$-free Diameter Two Graphs},
author = {Tereza Klimošová and Vibha Sahlot},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.15036},
year = {2023}
}
Comments
14 pages. Revised version accepted to 18th Algorithms and Data Structures Symposium (WADS 2023)