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Colouring Semirandom Graphs

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 July 2007

AMIN COJA-OGHLAN
AMIN COJA-OGHLAN*
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Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Institut für Informatik, Unter den Linden 6, 10099 Berlin, Germany (e-mail: coja@informatik.hu-berlin.de)
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Abstract

We study semirandom k-colourable graphs made up as follows. Partition the vertex set V = {1, . . ., n} randomly into k classes V1, . . ., Vk of equal size and include each Vi–Vj-edge with probability p independently (1 ≤ i < j ≤ k) to obtain a graph G0. Then, an adversary may add further Vi–Vj-edges (i≠j) to G0, thereby completing the semirandom graph G = G*n,p,k. We show that if np ≥ max{(1 + ϵ)klnn, C0k2} for a certain constant C0>0 and an arbitrarily small but constant ϵ>0, an optimal colouring of G*n,p,k can be found in polynomial time with high probability. Furthermore, if np ≥ C0max{klnn, k2}, a k-colouring of G*n,p,k can be computed in polynomial expected time. Moreover, an optimal colouring of G*n,p,k can be computed in expected polynomial time if k ≤ ln1/3n and np ≥ C0klnn. By contrast, it is NP-hard to k-colour G*n,p,k With high probability if .

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 16 , Issue 4 , July 2007 , pp. 515 - 552
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2006

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