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Exploring the Space of Colourings with Kempe Changes (Invited Talk)

Author Marthe Bonamy

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  • Mathematics of computing → Graph coloring
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  • Graph theory
  • graph coloring
  • reconfiguration

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Abstract

Kempe changes were introduced in 1879 in an attempt to prove the 4-colour theorem. They are a convenient if not crucial tool to prove various colouring theorems. Here, we consider how to navigate from a colouring to another through Kempe changes. When is it possible? How fast?

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Marthe Bonamy. Exploring the Space of Colourings with Kempe Changes (Invited Talk). In 48th International Symposium on Mathematical Foundations of Computer Science (MFCS 2023). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 272, pp. 1:1-1:2, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2023) https://doi.org/10.4230/LIPIcs.MFCS.2023.1

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Marthe Bonamy
  • CNRS, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France

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