Determining the Chromatic Number of a Graph.
Abstract
Certain algorithms concerning coloring graphs involve the partial exploration of Zykov trees. We investigate the size of such trees, and prove that a certain class of branch-and-bound algorithms for determining the chromatic number of a graph requires in probability a number of steps which grows faster than exponentially with the number of vertices of the graph. (Author)
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Oct 01, 1976
- Accession Number
- ADA035350
Entities
People
- Colin Mcdiarmid
Organizations
- Stanford University