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Parameterized Complexity of the List Coloring Reconfiguration Problem with Graph Parameters

Authors Tatsuhiko Hatanaka, Takehiro Ito, Xiao Zhou

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  • combinatorial reconfiguration
  • fixed-parameter tractability
  • graph algorithm
  • list coloring
  • W[1]-hardness

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Abstract

Let G be a graph such that each vertex has its list of available colors, and assume that each list is a subset of the common set consisting of k colors. For two given list colorings of G, we study the problem of transforming one into the other by changing only one vertex color assignment at a time, while at all times maintaining a list coloring. This problem is known to be PSPACE-complete even for bounded bandwidth graphs and a fixed constant k. In this paper, we study the fixed-parameter tractability of the problem when parameterized by several graph parameters. We first give a fixed-parameter algorithm for the problem when parameterized by k and the modular-width of an input graph. We next give a fixed-parameter algorithm for the shortest variant which computes the length of a shortest transformation when parameterized by k and the size of a minimum vertex cover of an input graph. As corollaries, we show that the problem for cographs and the shortest variant for split graphs are fixed-parameter tractable even when only k is taken as a parameter. On the other hand, we prove that the problem is W[1]-hard when parameterized only by the size of a minimum vertex cover of an input graph.

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Tatsuhiko Hatanaka, Takehiro Ito, and Xiao Zhou. Parameterized Complexity of the List Coloring Reconfiguration Problem with Graph Parameters. In 42nd International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2017). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 83, pp. 51:1-51:13, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2017) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2017.51

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Tatsuhiko Hatanaka
Takehiro Ito
Xiao Zhou

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