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Structural Parameterizations of b-Coloring

Authors Lars Jaffke , Paloma T. Lima , Roohani Sharma

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  • Theory of computation → Parameterized complexity and exact algorithms
  • Theory of computation → Graph algorithms analysis
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  • b-coloring
  • structural parameterization
  • XNLP
  • pathwidth
  • neighborhood diversity
  • twin cover

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Abstract

The b-Coloring problem, which given a graph G and an integer k asks whether G has a proper k-coloring such that each color class has a vertex adjacent to all color classes except its own, is known to be FPT parameterized by the vertex cover number and XP and 𝖶[1]-hard parameterized by clique-width. Its complexity when parameterized by the treewidth of the input graph remained an open problem. We settle this question by showing that b-Coloring is XNLP-complete when parameterized by the pathwidth of the input graph. Besides determining the precise parameterized complexity of this problem, this implies that b-Coloring parameterized by pathwidth is 𝖶[t]-hard for all t, and resolves the parameterized complexity of b-Coloring parameterized by treewidth. We complement this result by showing that b-Coloring is FPT when parameterized by neighborhood diversity and by twin cover, two parameters that generalize vertex cover to more dense graphs, but are incomparable to pathwidth.

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Lars Jaffke, Paloma T. Lima, and Roohani Sharma. Structural Parameterizations of b-Coloring. In 34th International Symposium on Algorithms and Computation (ISAAC 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 283, pp. 40:1-40:14, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.ISAAC.2023.40

Author Details

Lars Jaffke
  • University of Bergen, Norway
Paloma T. Lima
  • IT University of Copenhagen, Denmark
Roohani Sharma
  • Max Planck Institute for Informatics, Saarland Informatics Campus, Saarbrücken, Germany

Funding

  • Lima, Paloma T.: This work received funding from the Independent Research Fund Denmark grant agreement number 2098-00012B.

Acknowledgements

We would like to thank an anonymous reviewer for carefully reading our paper and for many useful comments.

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