scholarly journals On Total and Edge-colouring of Proper Circular-arc Graphs

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Pedro W. Bernardi ◽  
Sheila M. De Almeida ◽  
Leandro M. Zatesko

Deciding if a graph is Δ-edge-colourable (resp. (Δ + 1)-total colourable), although it is an NP-complete problem for graphs in general, is polynomially solvable for interval graphs of odd (resp. even) maximum degree Δ. An interesting superclass of the proper interval graphs are the proper circular-arc graphs, for which we suspect that Δ-edge-colourability is linear-time decidable. This work presents sufficient conditions for Δ-edge-colourability, (Δ + 1)-total colourability, and (Δ+2)-total colourability of proper circular-arc graphs. Our proofs are constructive and yield polynomial-time algorithms.

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (04) ◽  
pp. 283-298
Author(s):  
Oswin Aichholzer ◽  
Franz Aurenhammer ◽  
Thomas Hackl ◽  
Clemens Huemer ◽  
Alexander Pilz ◽  
...  

Deciding 3-colorability for general plane graphs is known to be an NP-complete problem. However, for certain families of graphs, like triangulations, polynomial time algorithms exist. We consider the family of pseudo-triangulations, which are a generalization of triangulations, and prove NP-completeness for this class. This result also holds if we bound their face degree to four, or exclusively consider pointed pseudo-triangulations with maximum face degree five. In contrast to these completeness results, we show that pointed pseudo-triangulations with maximum face degree four are always 3-colorable. An according 3-coloring can be found in linear time. Some complexity results relating to the rank of pseudo-triangulations are also given.


2020 ◽  
Vol 40 (4) ◽  
pp. 1008-1019
Author(s):  
Zhiwei Guo ◽  
Hajo Broersma ◽  
Ruonan Li ◽  
Shenggui Zhang

Abstract A compatible spanning circuit in a (not necessarily properly) edge-colored graph G is a closed trail containing all vertices of G in which any two consecutively traversed edges have distinct colors. Sufficient conditions for the existence of extremal compatible spanning circuits (i.e., compatible Hamilton cycles and Euler tours), and polynomial-time algorithms for finding compatible Euler tours have been considered in previous literature. More recently, sufficient conditions for the existence of more general compatible spanning circuits in specific edge-colored graphs have been established. In this paper, we consider the existence of (more general) compatible spanning circuits from an algorithmic perspective. We first show that determining whether an edge-colored connected graph contains a compatible spanning circuit is an NP-complete problem. Next, we describe two polynomial-time algorithms for finding compatible spanning circuits in edge-colored complete graphs. These results in some sense give partial support to a conjecture on the existence of compatible Hamilton cycles in edge-colored complete graphs due to Bollobás and Erdős from the 1970s.


2013 ◽  
Vol Vol. 15 no. 1 (Discrete Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrew R. Curtis ◽  
Min Chih Lin ◽  
Ross M. Mcconnell ◽  
Yahav Nussbaum ◽  
Francisco Juan Soulignac ◽  
...  

Discrete Algorithms International audience We give a linear-time algorithm that checks for isomorphism between two 0-1 matrices that obey the circular-ones property. Our algorithm is similar to the isomorphism algorithm for interval graphs of Lueker and Booth, but works on PC trees, which are unrooted and have a cyclic nature, rather than with PQ trees, which are rooted. This algorithm leads to linear-time isomorphism algorithms for related graph classes, including Helly circular-arc graphs, Γ circular-arc graphs, proper circular-arc graphs and convex-round graphs.


1981 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 88-93 ◽  
Author(s):  
James B. Orlin ◽  
Maurizio A. Bonuccelli ◽  
Daniel P. Bovet

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