Hard coloring problems in low degree planar bipartite graphs

Miroslav Chlebik; Janka Chlebikova

doi:10.1016/j.dam.2006.03.014

Hard coloring problems in low degree planar bipartite graphs

Miroslav Chlebik, Janka Chlebikova

School of Computing

University of Sussex

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Abstract

In this paper we prove that the Precoloring Extension problem on graphs of maximum degree 3 is polynomially solvable, but even its restricted version with 3 colors is NP-complete on planar bipartite graphs of maximum degree 4.

The restricted version of List Coloring, in which the union of all lists consists of 3 colors, is shown to be NP-complete on planar 3-regular bipartite graphs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	1960-1965
Journal	Discrete Applied Mathematics
Volume	154
Issue number	14
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dam.2006.03.014
Publication status	Published - 2006

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List Coloring
PreColoring
Planar graphs

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