Exact Algorithms for List-Coloring of Intersecting Hypergraphs

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Khaled Elbassioni. Exact Algorithms for List-Coloring of Intersecting Hypergraphs. In 11th International Symposium on Parameterized and Exact Computation (IPEC 2016). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 63, pp. 12:1-12:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017)
https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.IPEC.2016.12

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We show that list-coloring for any intersecting hypergraph of m edges on n vertices, and lists drawn from a set of size at most k, can be checked in quasi-polynomial time (mn)^{o(k^2*log(mn))}.
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  • Hypergraph coloring
  • monotone Boolean duality
  • list coloring
  • exact algorithms
  • quasi-polynomial time

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