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Article Dans Une Revue SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics Année : 2014

Weighted Coloring in Trees

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A proper coloring of a graph is a partition of its vertex set into stable sets, where each part corresponds to a color. For a vertex-weighted graph, the weight of a color is the maximum weight of its vertices. The weight of a coloring is the sum of the weights of its colors. Guan and Zhu defined the weighted chromatic number of a vertex-weighted graph G as the smallest weight of a proper coloring of G (1997). If vertices of a graph have weight 1, its weighted chromatic number coincides with its chromatic number. Thus, the problem of computing the weighted chromatic number, a.k.a. Max Coloring Problem, is NP-hard in general graphs. It remains NP-hard in some graph classes as bipartite graphs. Approximation algorithms have been designed in several graph classes, in particular, there exists a PTAS for trees. Surprisingly, the time-complexity of computing this parameter in trees is still open. The Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) states that 3-SAT cannot be solved in sub-exponen-tial time. We show that, assuming ETH, the best algorithm to compute the weighted chromatic number of n-node trees has time-complexity n Θ(log n) . Our result mainly relies on proving that, when computing an optimal proper weighted coloring of a graph G, it is hard to combine colorings of its connected components.
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hal-01109194 , version 1 (25-01-2015)

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Julio Araujo, Nicolas Nisse, Stéphane Pérennes. Weighted Coloring in Trees. SIAM Journal on Discrete Mathematics, 2014, 28 (4), pp.2029 - 2041. ⟨10.1137/140954167⟩. ⟨hal-01109194⟩
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