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Results on Sparse Integer Programming and Geometric Independent Sets

An integer linear program is a problem of the form max{c^T x : Ax=b, x >= 0, x integer}, where A is in Z^(n x m), b in Z^m, and c in Z^n. Solving an integer linear program is NP-hard in general, but there are several assumptions for which it becomes fixed ...

EPFL2023

Unambiguous DNFs and Alon-Saks-Seymour

Mika Tapani Göös, Siddhartha Jain

We exhibit an unambiguous k-DNF formula that requires CNF width (Omega) over tilde (k(2)), which is optimal up to logarithmic factors. As a consequence, we get a near-optimal solution to the Alon-Saks-Seymour problem in graph theory (posed in 1991), which ...

IEEE COMPUTER SOC2022

Stability results for vertex Turan problems in Kneser graphs

Abhishek Methuku

The vertex set of the Kneser graph K(n, k) is V = (([n])(k)) and two vertices are adjacent if the corresponding sets are disjoint. For any graph F, the largest size of a vertex set U subset of V such that K(n, k)[U] is F-free, was recently determined by Al ...

2019

Distributed Coloring of Graphs with an Optimal Number of Colors

Etienne Michel François Bamas

This paper studies sufficient conditions to obtain efficient distributed algorithms coloring graphs optimally (i.e. with the minimum number of colors) in the LOCAL model of computation. Most of the work on distributed vertex coloring so far has focused on ...

SCHLOSS DAGSTUHL, LEIBNIZ CENTER INFORMATICS2019

On random subgraphs of Kneser and Schrijver graphs

Andrei Kupavskii

A Kneser graph KG(n,k) is a graph whose vertices are in oneto-one correspondence with k -element subsets of [n], with two vertices connected if and only if the corresponding sets do not intersect. A famous result due to Lowisz states that the chromatic num ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2016

Sparse Group Covers and Greedy Tree Approximations

Volkan Cevher, Luca Baldassarre

We consider the problem of finding a K-sparse approximation of a signal, such that the support of the approximation is the union of sets from a given collection, a.k.a. group structure. This problem subsumes the one of finding K-sparse tree approximations. ...

2015

Triangle-free intersection graphs of line segments with large chromatic number

Bartosz Maria Walczak, Michal Lason

In the 1970s Erdos asked whether the chromatic number of intersection graphs of line segments in the plane is bounded by a function of their clique number. We show the answer is no. Specifically, for each positive integer k we construct a triangle-free fam ...

Academic Press Inc Elsevier Science2014

Coloring Relatives of Interval Overlap Graphs via On-line Games

Bartosz Maria Walczak

The main goal of this paper is to formalize and explore a connection between chromatic properties of graphs defined by geometric representations and competitivity analysis of on-line algorithms. This connection became apparent after the recent construction ...

Springer-Verlag Berlin2014

Coloring Intersection Graphs of Arc-Connected Sets in the Plane

Bartosz Maria Walczak, Michal Lason

A family of sets in the plane is simple if the intersection of any subfamily is arc-connected, and it is pierced by a line L if the intersection of any member with L is a nonempty segment. It is proved that the intersection graphs of simple families of com ...

Springer2014

Triangle-Free Geometric Intersection Graphs with Large Chromatic Number

Bartosz Maria Walczak, Michal Lason

Several classical constructions illustrate the fact that the chromatic number of a graph may be arbitrarily large compared to its clique number. However, until very recently no such construction was known for intersection graphs of geometric objects in the ...

Springer US2013

A note on chromatic properties of threshold graphs

Dominique de Werra, Bernard Ries, Rico Zenklusen

In threshold graphs one may find weights for the vertices and a threshold value t such that for any subset S of vertices, the sum of the weights is at most the threshold t if and only if the set S is a stable (independent) set. In this note we ask a simila ...

Elsevier2012

A Large-Scale Multi-Lingual Color Thesaurus

Sabine Süsstrunk, Albrecht Johannes Lindner, Bryan Zhi Li

We present a color thesaurus with over 9000 color names in ten different languages. Instead of using conventional psychophysical experiments, we use a statistical framework that is based on search results from Google Image Search. For each color name we co ...

2012

Coloring K-k-free intersection graphs of geometric objects in the plane

János Pach

The intersection graph of a collection C of sets is the graph on the vertex set C, in which C-1 . C-2 is an element of C are joined by an edge if and only if C-1 boolean AND C-2 not equal empty set. Erdos conjectured that the chromatic number of triangle-f ...

2012

Coloring axis-parallel rectangles

János Pach, Gábor Tardos

For every k and r, we construct a finite family of axis-parallel rectangles in the plane such that no matter how we color them with k colors, there exists a point covered by precisely r members of the family, all of which have the same color. For r = 2, th ...

2010

An Optimal Linear-Time Algorithm for Interprocedural Register Allocation in High Level Synthesis Using SSA Form

Paolo Ienne, Philip Brisk, Ajay Kumar Verma

An optimal linear-time algorithm for interprocedural register allocation in high level synthesis is presented. Historically, register allocation has been modeled as a graph coloring problem, which is nondeterministic polynomial time-complete in general; ho ...

2010

Split-critical and uniquely split-colorable graphs

Dominique de Werra, Bernard Ries, Tinaz Ekim

The split-coloring problem is a generalized vertex coloring problem where we partition the vertices into a minimum number of split graphs. In this paper, we study some notions which are extensively studied for the usual vertex coloring and the cocoloring p ...

2010

Partitioning graphs into complete and empty graphs

Tinaz Ekim

Given integers j and k and a graph G, we consider partitions of the vertex set of G into j + k parts where j of these parts induce empty graphs and the remaining k induce cliques. If such a partition exists, we say G is a (j, k)-graph. For a fixed j and k ...

Elsevier2009

Some coloring and walking problems in graphs

Benjamin Leroy-Beaulieu

Graph theory is an important topic in discrete mathematics. It is particularly interesting because it has a wide range of applications. Among the main problems in graph theory, we shall mention the following ones: graph coloring and the Hamiltonian circuit ...

EPFL2008

A graph coloring heuristic using partial solutions and a reactive tabu scheme

Nicolas Zufferey

Most of the recent heuristics for the graph coloring problem start from an infeasible k-coloring (adjacent vertices may have the same color) and try to make the solution feasible through a sequence of color exchanges. In contrast, our approach (called FOO- ...

2008

Survivable Routing of Mesh Topologies in IP-over-WDM Networks by Recursive Graph Contraction

Patrick Thiran, Maciej Kurant

Failure restoration at the IP layer in IP-over-WDM networks requires to map the IP topology on the WDM topology in such a way that a failure at the WDM layer leaves the IP topology connected. Such a mapping is called survivable. Finding a survivable mappin ...

2007