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Article Dans Une Revue The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics Année : 2022

Acyclic, Star, and Injective Colouring: Bounding the Diameter

Christoph Brause
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Petr Golovach
Barnaby Martin
Pascal Ochem
Daniël Paulusma
Siani Smith

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We examine the effect of bounding the diameter for a number of natural and well-studied variants of the COLOURING problem. A colouring is acyclic, star, or injective if any two colour classes induce a forest, star forest or disjoint union of vertices and edges, respectively. The corresponding decision problems are ACYCLIC COLOURING, STAR COLOURING and INJECTIVE COLOURING. The last problem is also known as $L(1,1)$-LABELLING and we also consider the framework of $L(a,b)$-LABELLING. We prove a number of (almost-)complete complexity classifications. In particular, we show that for graphs of diameter at most~$d$, ACYCLIC $3$-COLOURING is polynomial-time solvable if $d\leq 2$ but NP-complete if $d\geq 4$, and STAR $3$-COLOURING is polynomial-time solvable if $d\leq 3$ but NP-complete for $d\geq 8.$ As far as we are aware, STAR $3$-COLOURING is the first problem that exhibits a complexity jump for some $d\geq 3.$ Our third main result is that $L(1,2)$-LABELLING is NP-complete for graphs of diameter~$2$; we relate the latter problem to a special case of HAMILTONIAN PATH.
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Christoph Brause, Petr Golovach, Barnaby Martin, Pascal Ochem, Daniël Paulusma, et al.. Acyclic, Star, and Injective Colouring: Bounding the Diameter. The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics, 2022, 29 (2), pp.#P2.43. ⟨10.37236/10738⟩. ⟨lirmm-03799962⟩
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