scholarly journals On the simultaneous edge coloring of graphs

2014 ◽  
Vol 06 (04) ◽  
pp. 1450049
Author(s):  
Behrooz Bagheri Gh. ◽  
Behnaz Omoomi

A μ-simultaneous edge coloring of graph G is a set of μ proper edge colorings of G with a same color set such that for each vertex, the sets of colors appearing on the edges incident to that vertex are the same in each coloring and no edge receives the same color in any two colorings. The μ-simultaneous edge coloring of bipartite graphs has a close relation with μ-way Latin trades. Mahdian et al. (2000) conjectured that every bridgeless bipartite graph is 2-simultaneous edge colorable. Luo et al. (2004) showed that every bipartite graphic sequence S with all its elements greater than one, has a realization that admits a 2-simultaneous edge coloring. In this paper, the μ-simultaneous edge coloring of graphs is studied. Moreover, the properties of the extremal counterexample to the above conjecture are investigated. Also, a relation between 2-simultaneous edge coloring of a graph and a cycle double cover with certain properties is shown and using this relation, some results about 2-simultaneous edge colorable graphs are obtained.

10.37236/705 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Carl Johan Casselgren

A proper edge coloring of a graph $G$ with colors $1,2,3,\dots$ is called an interval coloring if the colors on the edges incident with any vertex are consecutive. A bipartite graph is $(3,4)$-biregular if all vertices in one part have degree $3$ and all vertices in the other part have degree $4$. Recently it was proved [J. Graph Theory 61 (2009), 88-97] that if such a graph $G$ has a spanning subgraph whose components are paths with endpoints at 3-valent vertices and lengths in $\{2, 4, 6, 8\}$, then $G$ has an interval coloring. It was also conjectured that every simple $(3,4)$-biregular bipartite graph has such a subgraph. We provide some evidence for this conjecture by proving that a simple $(3,4)$-biregular bipartite graph has a spanning subgraph whose components are nontrivial paths with endpoints at $3$-valent vertices and lengths not exceeding $22$.


2017 ◽  
Vol 340 (3) ◽  
pp. 481-493
Author(s):  
Ayineedi Venkateswarlu ◽  
Santanu Sarkar ◽  
Sai Mali Ananthanarayanan

2021 ◽  
Vol 0 (0) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yinglei Song

Abstract In this paper, we study the parameterized complexity of the induced matching problem in hamiltonian bipartite graphs and the inapproximability of the maximum induced matching problem in hamiltonian bipartite graphs. We show that, given a hamiltonian bipartite graph, the induced matching problem is W[1]-hard and cannot be solved in time n o ⁢ ( k ) {n^{o(\sqrt{k})}} , where n is the number of vertices in the graph, unless the 3SAT problem can be solved in subexponential time. In addition, we show that unless NP = P {\operatorname{NP}=\operatorname{P}} , a maximum induced matching in a hamiltonian bipartite graph cannot be approximated within a ratio of n 1 / 4 - ϵ {n^{1/4-\epsilon}} , where n is the number of vertices in the graph.


2008 ◽  
Vol Vol. 10 no. 3 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Dariusz Dereniowski ◽  
Adam Nadolski

Graphs and Algorithms International audience We study two variants of edge-coloring of edge-weighted graphs, namely compact edge-coloring and circular compact edge-coloring. First, we discuss relations between these two coloring models. We prove that every outerplanar bipartite graph admits a compact edge-coloring and that the decision problem of the existence of compact circular edge-coloring is NP-complete in general. Then we provide a polynomial time 1:5-approximation algorithm and pseudo-polynomial exact algorithm for compact circular coloring of odd cycles and prove that it is NP-hard to optimally color these graphs. Finally, we prove that if a path P2 is joined by an edge to an odd cycle then the problem of the existence of a compact circular coloring becomes NP-complete.


2013 ◽  
Vol 22 (5) ◽  
pp. 783-799 ◽  
Author(s):  
GUILLEM PERARNAU ◽  
ORIOL SERRA

A perfect matchingMin an edge-coloured complete bipartite graphKn,nis rainbow if no pair of edges inMhave the same colour. We obtain asymptotic enumeration results for the number of rainbow perfect matchings in terms of the maximum number of occurrences of each colour. We also consider two natural models of random edge-colourings ofKn,nand show that if the number of colours is at leastn, then there is with high probability a rainbow perfect matching. This in particular shows that almost every square matrix of ordernin which every entry appearsntimes has a Latin transversal.


Author(s):  
R. El Shanawany ◽  
M. Higazy ◽  
A. El Mesady

LetHbe a graph onnvertices and𝒢a collection ofnsubgraphs ofH, one for each vertex, where𝒢is an orthogonal double cover (ODC) ofHif every edge ofHoccurs in exactly two members of𝒢and any two members share an edge whenever the corresponding vertices are adjacent inHand share no edges whenever the corresponding vertices are nonadjacent inH. In this paper, we are concerned with the Cartesian product of symmetric starter vectors of orthogonal double covers of the complete bipartite graphs and using this method to construct ODCs by new disjoint unions of complete bipartite graphs.


2011 ◽  
Vol 12 (01n02) ◽  
pp. 109-124
Author(s):  
FLORIAN HUC

The weighted-edge-coloring problem of an edge-weighted graph whose weights are between 0 and 1, consists in finding a coloring using as few colors as possible and satisfying the following constraints: the sum of weights of edges with the same color and incident to the same vertex must be at most 1. In 1991, Chung and Ross conjectured that if G is bipartite, then [Formula: see text] colors are always sufficient to weighted-edge-color (G,w), where [Formula: see text] is the maximum of the sums of the weights of the edges incident to a vertex. We prove this is true for edge-weighted graphs with multiple edges whose underlying graph is a tree. We further generalise this conjecture to non-bipartite graphs and prove the generalised conjecture for simple edge-weighted outerplanar graphs. Finally, we introduce a list version of this coloring together with the list-bin-packing problem, which allows us to obtain new results concerning the original coloring for a specific class of graphs, namely the k-weight-degenerate weighted graph.


2013 ◽  
Vol 333-335 ◽  
pp. 1452-1455
Author(s):  
Chun Yan Ma ◽  
Xiang En Chen ◽  
Fang Yang ◽  
Bing Yao

A proper $k$-edge coloring of a graph $G$ is an assignment of $k$ colors, $1,2,\cdots,k$, to edges of $G$. For a proper edge coloring $f$ of $G$ and any vertex $x$ of $G$, we use $S(x)$ denote the set of thecolors assigned to the edges incident to $x$. If for any two adjacent vertices $u$ and $v$ of $G$, we have $S(u)\neq S(v)$,then $f$ is called the adjacent vertex distinguishing proper edge coloring of $G$ (or AVDPEC of $G$ in brief). The minimum number of colors required in an AVDPEC of $G$ is called the adjacent vertex distinguishing proper edge chromatic number of $G$, denoted by $\chi^{'}_{\mathrm{a}}(G)$. In this paper, adjacent vertex distinguishing proper edge chromatic numbers of several classes of complete 5-partite graphs are obtained.


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