Precoloring extension involving pairs of vertices of small distance,
Precoloring extension involving pairs of vertices of small distance,
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涉及小距离顶点对的预着色扩展,
DOI:
10.1016/j.dam.2013.10.012
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发表时间:
2014
影响因子:
1.1
通讯作者:
Akira Sato and Kazuki Sano
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作者:
Chihoko Ojima;Akira Sato and Kazuki Sano
In this paper, we consider coloring of graphs under the assumption that some vertices are already colored. Let G be an r-colorable graph and let P⊂ V (G). Albertson (1998) has proved that if every pair of vertices in P has distance at least four, then every (r+ 1)-coloring of G [P] can be extended to an (r+ 1)-coloring of G, where G [P] is the subgraph of G induced by P. In this paper, we allow P to have pairs of vertices of distance at most three, and investigate how the number of such pairs affects the number of colors we need to extend the coloring of G [P]. We also study the effect of pairs of vertices of distance at most two, and extend the result by Albertson and Moore (1999).