Data Reduction for Graph Coloring Problems

نویسندگان

  • Bart M. P. Jansen
  • Stefan Kratsch
چکیده

This paper studies the kernelization complexity of graph coloring problems, with respect to certain structural parameterizations of the input instances. We are interested in how well polynomial-time data reduction can provably shrink instances of coloring problems, in terms of the chosen parameter. It is well known that deciding 3-colorability is already NP-complete, hence parameterizing by the requested number of colors is not fruitful. Instead, we pick up on a research thread initiated by Cai (DAM, 2003) who studied coloring problems parameterized by the modification distance of the input graph to a graph class on which coloring is polynomial-time solvable; for example parameterizing by the number k of vertex-deletions needed to make the graph chordal. We obtain various upper and lower bounds for kernels of such parameterizations of q-Coloring, complementing Cai’s study of the time complexity with respect to these parameters.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Inf. Comput.

دوره 231  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2011