Computing Semidefinite Programming Lower Bounds for the (Fractional) Chromatic Number Via Block-Diagonalization

2008 ◽  
Vol 19 (2) ◽  
pp. 592-615 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nebojša Gvozdenović ◽  
Monique Laurent
Keyword(s):  
Semidefinite Programming ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Block Diagonalization ◽  
Fractional Chromatic Number

scholarly journals Cubical coloring — fractional covering by cuts and semidefinite programming

2015 ◽  
Vol Vol. 17 no.2 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Šámal
Keyword(s):  
Semidefinite Programming ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Fractional Chromatic Number ◽  
Maximum Cut ◽  
Continuous Mappings ◽  
Polynomial Time Approximation Algorithm ◽  
Eigenvalue Bound ◽  
International Audience ◽  
Graph Parameters ◽  
Fractional Covering

International audience We introduce a new graph parameter that measures fractional covering of a graph by cuts. Besides being interesting in its own right, it is useful for study of homomorphisms and tension-continuous mappings. We study the relations with chromatic number, bipartite density, and other graph parameters. We find the value of our parameter for a family of graphs based on hypercubes. These graphs play for our parameter the role that cliques play for the chromatic number and Kneser graphs for the fractional chromatic number. The fact that the defined parameter attains on these graphs the correct value suggests that our definition is a natural one. In the proof we use the eigenvalue bound for maximum cut and a recent result of Engström, Färnqvist, Jonsson, and Thapper [An approximability-related parameter on graphs – properties and applications, DMTCS vol. 17:1, 2015, 33–66]. We also provide a polynomial time approximation algorithm based on semidefinite programming and in particular on vector chromatic number (defined by Karger, Motwani and Sudan [Approximate graph coloring by semidefinite programming, J. ACM 45 (1998), no. 2, 246–265]).

scholarly journals The Guessing Number of Undirected Graphs

10.37236/679 ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Demetres Christofides ◽  
Klas Markström
Keyword(s):  
Network Coding ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Perfect Graphs ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Undirected Graphs ◽  
Fractional Chromatic Number ◽  
Winning Probability ◽  
Optimal Bounds

Riis [Electron. J. Combin., 14(1):R44, 2007] introduced a guessing game for graphs which is equivalent to finding protocols for network coding. In this paper we prove upper and lower bounds for the winning probability of the guessing game on undirected graphs. We find optimal bounds for perfect graphs and minimally imperfect graphs, and present a conjecture relating the exact value for all graphs to the fractional chromatic number.

2-Distance chromatic number of some graph products

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (02) ◽  
pp. 2050021
Author(s):  
Ghazale Ghazi ◽  
Freydoon Rahbarnia ◽  
Mostafa Tavakoli
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Graph Products ◽  
Lexicographic Product ◽  
Graph Product ◽  
Minimum Number

This paper studies the 2-distance chromatic number of some graph product. A coloring of [Formula: see text] is 2-distance if any two vertices at distance at most two from each other get different colors. The minimum number of colors in the 2-distance coloring of [Formula: see text] is the 2-distance chromatic number and denoted by [Formula: see text]. In this paper, we obtain some upper and lower bounds for the 2-distance chromatic number of the rooted product, generalized rooted product, hierarchical product and we determine exact value for the 2-distance chromatic number of the lexicographic product.

scholarly journals A Note on the Warmth of Random Graphs with Given Expected Degrees

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 1-4 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yilun Shang
Keyword(s):  
Statistical Mechanics ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Random Graph ◽  
Lower Bounds ◽  
Random Graphs ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Degree Sequence ◽  
Graph Model ◽  
Upper And Lower Bounds ◽  
Random Graph Model

We consider the random graph modelG(w)for a given expected degree sequencew=(w1,w2,…,wn). Warmth, introduced by Brightwell and Winkler in the context of combinatorial statistical mechanics, is a graph parameter related to lower bounds of chromatic number. We present new upper and lower bounds on warmth ofG(w). In particular, the minimum expected degree turns out to be an upper bound of warmth when it tends to infinity and the maximum expected degreem=O(nα)with0<α<1/2.

scholarly journals The fractional chromatic number of Zykov products of graphs

2011 ◽  
Vol 24 (4) ◽  
pp. 432-437 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Charbit ◽  
Jean Sébastien Sereni
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Fractional Chromatic Number
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