Theoretical Computer Science ( IF 0.9 ) Pub Date : 2020-10-26 , DOI: 10.1016/j.tcs.2020.10.032 Flavia Bonomo-Braberman , Maria Chudnovsky , Jan Goedgebeur , Peter Maceli , Oliver Schaudt , Maya Stein , Mingxian Zhong
We present an algorithm to color a graph G with no triangle and no induced 7-vertex path (i.e., a -free graph), where every vertex is assigned a list of possible colors which is a subset of . While this is a special case of the problem solved in Bonomo et al. (2018) [1], that does not require the absence of triangles, the algorithm here is both faster and conceptually simpler. The complexity of the algorithm is , and if G is bipartite, it improves to .
Moreover, we prove that there are finitely many minimal obstructions to list 3-coloring -free graphs if and only if . This implies the existence of a polynomial time certifying algorithm for list 3-coloring in -free graphs. We furthermore determine other cases of , and k such that the family of minimal obstructions to list k-coloring in -free graphs is finite.
中文翻译:
更好的三色算法:不包括三角形和七个顶点路径
我们提出了一种算法,可以为没有三角形且没有诱导7顶点路径的图形G着色(即-无图),其中为每个顶点分配了可能的颜色列表,这些颜色是 。虽然这是Bonomo等人解决的问题的特例。(2018)[1],它不需要三角形,这里的算法既更快又概念上更简单。该算法的复杂度为,并且如果G是二分的,它将改善为。
此外,我们证明了有限的最小障碍物列出了3色 免费图,当且仅当 。这意味着存在用于列表3着色的多项式时间证明算法-无图。我们进一步确定其他情况和ķ,从而阻碍最小的家庭名单ķ -coloring在无图是有限的。