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Locally bounded k-colorings of trees

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 January 2009

C. Bentz
Affiliation:
CEDRIC, CNAM, Paris, France; cedric.bentz@cnam.fr
C. Picouleau
Affiliation:
CEDRIC, CNAM, Paris, France; chp@cnam.fr
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Abstract

Given a tree T with n vertices, we show, by using a dynamic programming approach, that the problem of finding a 3-coloring of T respecting local (i.e., associated with p prespecified subsets of vertices) color bounds can be solved in O(n6p-1logn) time. We also show that our algorithm can be adapted to the case of k-colorings for fixed k.

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Research Article
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© EDP Sciences, ROADEF, SMAI, 2009

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