کد مقاله | کد نشریه | سال انتشار | مقاله انگلیسی | نسخه تمام متن |
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427084 | 686442 | 2016 | 7 صفحه PDF | دانلود رایگان |
• Computing the span of subcubic graphs is NP-hard in the strong sense.
• It is polynomially solvable and approximable under some extra assumptions.
Given a nonempty graph G and a function ξ that assigns positive integers to the edges of G, a ξ-coloring of G is a vertex coloring of G such that for every edge uv of G the colors assigned to the vertices u and v differ by at least ξ(uv)ξ(uv). In the paper we study the problem of finding ξ-colorings with minimal span, i.e. the difference between the largest and the smallest color used. We show that the problem, restricted to subcubic graphs, is:
• NP-hard in the strong sense but polynomially 32-approximable for functions ξ that take at most two values;
• polynomially 2-approximable and not (1+ε)(1+ε)-approximable for any ε<12, unless P=NPP=NP. We also show that, if we additionally assume that the edges that received the largest of the values of ξ induce a spanning and connected subgraph, then it becomes
• polynomially 43-approximable;
• polynomially solvable provided ξ takes at most two values.
Journal: Information Processing Letters - Volume 116, Issue 1, January 2016, Pages 26–32