Fixing improper colorings of graphs

Valentin Garnero, Konstanty Junosza-Szaniawski, Mathieu Liedloff, Pedro Montealegre, Paweł Rzążewski

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In this paper we consider a variation of a recoloring problem, called the Color-Fixing. Let us have some non-proper r-coloring φ of a graph G. We investigate the problem of finding a proper r-coloring of G, which is “the most similar” to φ i.e., the number k of vertices that have to be recolored is minimum possible. We observe that the problem is NP-complete for any fixed r≥3, even for bipartite planar graphs. Moreover, it is W[1]-hard even for bipartite graphs, when parameterized by the number k of allowed recoloring transformations. On the other hand, the problem is fixed-parameter tractable, when parameterized by k and the number r of colors. We provide a 2n⋅nO(1) algorithm for the problem and a linear algorithm for graphs with bounded treewidth. We also show several lower complexity bounds, using standard complexity assumptions. Finally, we investigate the fixing number of a graph G. It is the minimum k such that k recoloring transformations are sufficient to transform any coloring of G into a proper one.

Idioma originalInglés
Páginas (desde-hasta)66-78
Número de páginas13
PublicaciónTheoretical Computer Science
Volumen711
DOI
EstadoPublicada - 8 feb. 2018

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