scholarly journals Completing Partial Proper Colorings using Hall's Condition

10.37236/4387 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Holliday ◽  
Jennifer Vandenbussche ◽  
Erik E Westlund

In the context of list-coloring the vertices of a graph, Hall's condition is a generalization of Hall's Marriage Theorem and is necessary (but not sufficient) for a graph to admit a proper list-coloring. The graph $G$ with list assignment $L$ satisfies Hall's condition if for each subgraph $H$ of $G$, the inequality $|V(H)| \leq \sum_{\sigma \in \mathcal{C}} \alpha(H(\sigma, L))$ is satisfied, where $\mathcal{C}$ is the set of colors and $\alpha(H(\sigma, L))$ is the independence number of the subgraph of $H$ induced on the set of vertices having color $\sigma$ in their lists. A list assignment $L$ to a graph $G$ is called Hall if $(G,L)$ satisfies Hall's condition. A graph $G$ is Hall $m$-completable for some $m \geq \chi(G)$ if every partial proper $m$-coloring of $G$ whose corresponding list assignment is Hall can be extended to a proper coloring of $G$. In 2011, Bobga et al. posed the following questions: (1) Are there examples of graphs that are Hall $m$-completable, but not Hall $(m+1)$-completable for some $m \geq 3$? (2) If $G$ is neither complete nor an odd cycle, is $G$ Hall $\Delta(G)$-completable? This paper establishes that for every $m \geq 3$, there exists a graph that is Hall $m$-completable but not Hall $(m+1)$-completable and also that every bipartite planar graph $G$ is Hall $\Delta(G)$-completable.

10.37236/5687 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sarah Holliday ◽  
Jennifer Vandenbussche ◽  
Erik E. Westlund

In the context of list coloring the vertices of a graph, Hall's condition is a generalization of Hall's Marriage Theorem and is necessary (but not sufficient) for a graph to admit a proper list coloring. The graph $G$ with list assignment $L$, abbreviated $(G,L)$, satisfies Hall's condition if for each subgraph $H$ of $G$, the inequality $|V(H)| \leq \sum_{\sigma \in \mathcal{C}} \alpha(H(\sigma, L))$ is satisfied, where $\mathcal{C}$ is the set of colors and $\alpha(H(\sigma, L))$ is the independence number of the subgraph of $H$ induced on the set of vertices having color $\sigma$ in their lists. A list assignment $L$ to a graph $G$ is called Hall if $(G,L)$ satisfies Hall's condition. A graph $G$ is Hall $k$-extendible for some $k \geq \chi(G)$ if every $k$-precoloring of $G$ whose corresponding list assignment is Hall can be extended to a proper $k$-coloring of $G$. In 2011, Bobga et al. posed the question: If $G$ is neither complete nor an odd cycle, is $G$ Hall $\Delta(G)$-extendible? This paper establishes an affirmative answer to this question: every graph $G$ is Hall $\Delta(G)$-extendible. Results relating to the behavior of Hall extendibility under subgraph containment are also given. Finally, for certain graph families, the complete spectrum of values of $k$ for which they are Hall $k$-extendible is presented. We include a focus on graphs which are Hall $k$-extendible for all $k \geq \chi(G)$, since these are graphs for which satisfying the obviously necessary Hall's condition is also sufficient for a precoloring to be extendible.


10.37236/5309 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Daniel W. Cranston ◽  
Landon Rabern

The 4 Color Theorem (4CT) implies that every $n$-vertex planar graph has an independent set of size at least $\frac{n}4$; this is best possible, as shown by the disjoint union of many copies of $K_4$.  In 1968, Erdős asked whether this bound on independence number could be proved more easily than the full 4CT. In 1976 Albertson showed (independently of the 4CT) that every $n$-vertex planar graph has an independent set of size at least $\frac{2n}9$. Until now, this remained the best bound independent of the 4CT. Our main result improves this bound to $\frac{3n}{13}$.


2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Wouter Cames van Batenburg ◽  
Gwenaël Joret ◽  
Jan Goedgebeur

The _independence ratio_ of a graph is the ratio of the size of its largest independent set to its number of vertices. Trivially, the independence ratio of a k-colorable graph is at least $1/k$ as each color class of a k-coloring is an independent set. However, better bounds can often be obtained for well-structured classes of graphs. In particular, Albertson, Bollobás and Tucker conjectured in 1976 that the independence ratio of every triangle-free subcubic planar graph is at least $3/8$. The conjecture was proven by Heckman and Thomas in 2006, and the ratio is best possible as there exists a cubic triangle-free planar graph with 24 vertices and the independence number equal to 9. The present article removes the planarity assumption. However, one needs to introduce an additional assumption since there are known to exist six 2-connected (non-planar) triangle-free subcubic graphs with the independence ratio less than $3/8$. Bajnok and Brinkmann conjectured that every 2-connected triangle-free subcubic graph has the independence ratio at least $3/8$ unless it is one of the six exceptional graphs. Fraughnaugh and Locke proposed a stronger conjecture: every triangle-free subcubic graph that does not contain one of the six exceptional graphs as a subgraph has independence ratio at least $3/8$. The authors prove these two conjectures, which implies in particular the result by Heckman and Thomas.


10.37236/2598 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Tom Bohman ◽  
Ron Holzman ◽  
Venkatesh Natarajan

We give an upper bound on the independence number of the cube of the odd cycle $C_{8n+5}$. The best known lower bound is conjectured to be the truth; we prove the conjecture in the case $8n+5$ prime and, within $2$, for general $n$.


2020 ◽  
Vol 193 (4) ◽  
pp. 845-856
Author(s):  
Andrea Lucchini

Abstract Given a finite group G, we denote by $$\Delta (G)$$ Δ ( G ) the graph whose vertices are the elements G and where two vertices x and y are adjacent if there exists a minimal generating set of G containing x and y. We prove that $$\Delta (G)$$ Δ ( G ) is connected and classify the groups G for which $$\Delta (G)$$ Δ ( G ) is a planar graph.


2002 ◽  
Vol 249 (1-3) ◽  
pp. 57-63
Author(s):  
M.M. Cropper ◽  
J.L. Goldwasser

2003 ◽  
Vol 14 (02) ◽  
pp. 323-333 ◽  
Author(s):  
PENG-JUN WAN ◽  
KHALED M. ALZOUBI ◽  
OPHIR FRIEDER

Let α2(G), γ(G) and γc(G) be the 2-independence number, the domination number, and the connected domination number of a graph G respectively. Then α2(G) ≤ γ (G) ≤ γc(G). In this paper , we present a simple heuristic for Minimum Connected Dominating Set in graphs. When running on a graph G excluding Km (the complete graph of order m) as a minor, the heuristic produces a connected dominating set of cardinality at most 7α2(G) - 4 if m = 3, or at most [Formula: see text] if m ≥ 4. In particular, if running on a planar graph G, the heuristic outputs a connected dominating set of cardinality at most 15α2(G) - 5.


10.37236/8395 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Pierre Aboulker ◽  
Marthe Bonamy ◽  
Nicolas Bousquet ◽  
Louis Esperet

This paper is concerned with efficiently coloring sparse graphs in the distributed setting with as few colors as possible. According to the celebrated Four Color Theorem, planar graphs can be colored with at most 4 colors, and the proof gives a (sequential) quadratic algorithm finding such a coloring. A natural problem is to improve this complexity in the distributed setting. Using the fact that planar graphs contain linearly many vertices of degree at most 6, Goldberg, Plotkin, and Shannon obtained a deterministic distributed algorithm coloring $n$-vertex planar graphs with 7 colors in $O(\log n)$ rounds. Here, we show how to color planar graphs with 6 colors in $\text{polylog}(n)$ rounds. Our algorithm indeed works more generally in the list-coloring setting and for sparse graphs (for such graphs we improve by at least one the number of colors resulting from an efficient algorithm of Barenboim and Elkin, at the expense of a slightly worst complexity). Our bounds on the number of colors turn out to be quite sharp in general. Among other results, we show that no distributed algorithm can color every $n$-vertex planar graph with 4 colors in $o(n)$ rounds.


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