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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.23

Density-Sensitive Algorithms for (Δ + 1)-Edge Coloring

Authors: Sayan Bhattacharya, Martín Costa, Nadav Panski, and Shay Solomon

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 308, 32nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2024)

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Vizing’s theorem asserts the existence of a (Δ+1)-edge coloring for any graph G, where Δ = Δ(G) denotes the maximum degree of G. Several polynomial time (Δ+1)-edge coloring algorithms are known, and the state-of-the-art running time (up to polylogarithmic factors) is Õ(min{m √n, m Δ}), by Gabow, Nishizeki, Kariv, Leven and Terada from 1985, where n and m denote the number of vertices and edges in the graph, respectively. Recently, Sinnamon shaved off a polylog(n) factor from the time bound of Gabow et al. The arboricity α = α(G) of a graph G is the minimum number of edge-disjoint forests into which its edge set can be partitioned, and it is a measure of the graph’s "uniform density". While α ≤ Δ in any graph, many natural and real-world graphs exhibit a significant separation between α and Δ. In this work we design a (Δ+1)-edge coloring algorithm with a running time of Õ(min{m √n, m Δ})⋅ α/Δ, thus improving the longstanding time barrier by a factor of α/Δ. In particular, we achieve a near-linear runtime for bounded arboricity graphs (i.e., α = Õ(1)) as well as when α = Õ(Δ/√n). Our algorithm builds on Gabow et al.’s and Sinnamon’s algorithms, and can be viewed as a density-sensitive refinement of them.

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Sayan Bhattacharya, Martín Costa, Nadav Panski, and Shay Solomon. Density-Sensitive Algorithms for (Δ + 1)-Edge Coloring. In 32nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 308, pp. 23:1-23:18, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{bhattacharya_et_al:LIPIcs.ESA.2024.23,
  author =	{Bhattacharya, Sayan and Costa, Mart{\'\i}n and Panski, Nadav and Solomon, Shay},
  title =	{{Density-Sensitive Algorithms for (\Delta + 1)-Edge Coloring}},
  booktitle =	{32nd Annual European Symposium on Algorithms (ESA 2024)},
  pages =	{23:1--23:18},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-338-6},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{308},
  editor =	{Chan, Timothy and Fischer, Johannes and Iacono, John and Herman, Grzegorz},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.23},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-210945},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.ESA.2024.23},
  annote =	{Keywords: Graph Algorithms, Edge Coloring, Arboricity}
}

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DOI: 10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2024.12

Arboricity-Dependent Algorithms for Edge Coloring

Authors: Sayan Bhattacharya, Martín Costa, Nadav Panski, and Shay Solomon

Published in: LIPIcs, Volume 294, 19th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2024)

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The problem of edge coloring has been extensively studied over the years. Recently, this problem has received significant attention in the dynamic setting, where we are given a dynamic graph evolving via a sequence of edge insertions and deletions and our objective is to maintain an edge coloring of the graph. Currently, it is not known whether it is possible to maintain a (Δ + O(Δ^(1-μ)))-edge coloring in Õ(1) update time, for any constant μ > 0, where Δ is the maximum degree of the graph. In this paper, we show how to efficiently maintain a (Δ + O(α))-edge coloring in Õ(1) amortized update time, where α is the arboricty of the graph. Thus, we answer this question in the affirmative for graphs of sufficiently small arboricity.

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Sayan Bhattacharya, Martín Costa, Nadav Panski, and Shay Solomon. Arboricity-Dependent Algorithms for Edge Coloring. In 19th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2024). Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs), Volume 294, pp. 12:1-12:15, Schloss Dagstuhl – Leibniz-Zentrum für Informatik (2024)

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@InProceedings{bhattacharya_et_al:LIPIcs.SWAT.2024.12,
  author =	{Bhattacharya, Sayan and Costa, Mart{\'\i}n and Panski, Nadav and Solomon, Shay},
  title =	{{Arboricity-Dependent Algorithms for Edge Coloring}},
  booktitle =	{19th Scandinavian Symposium and Workshops on Algorithm Theory (SWAT 2024)},
  pages =	{12:1--12:15},
  series =	{Leibniz International Proceedings in Informatics (LIPIcs)},
  ISBN =	{978-3-95977-318-8},
  ISSN =	{1868-8969},
  year =	{2024},
  volume =	{294},
  editor =	{Bodlaender, Hans L.},
  publisher =	{Schloss Dagstuhl -- Leibniz-Zentrum f{\"u}r Informatik},
  address =	{Dagstuhl, Germany},
  URL =		{https://drops.dagstuhl.de/entities/document/10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2024.12},
  URN =		{urn:nbn:de:0030-drops-200524},
  doi =		{10.4230/LIPIcs.SWAT.2024.12},
  annote =	{Keywords: Dynamic Algorithms, Graph Algorithms, Edge Coloring, Arboricity}
}

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