Backbone colorings along stars and matchings in split graphs: their span is close to the chromatic number

Broersma, H.J. and Marchal, L. and Paulusma, D. and Salman, A.N.M. (2009) Backbone colorings along stars and matchings in split graphs: their span is close to the chromatic number. Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory, 29 (1). pp. 143-162. ISSN 1234-3099

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Abstract:	We continue the study on backbone colorings, a variation on classical vertex colorings that was introduced at WG2003. Given a graph $G = (V,E)$ and a spanning subgraph $H$ of $G$ (the backbone of $G$ ), a $\gamma$ -backbone coloring for $G$ and $H$ is a proper vertex coloring $V\to \{1,2,\ldots\}$ of $G$ in which the colors assigned to adjacent vertices in $H$ differ by at least $\gamma$ . The algorithmic and combinatorial properties of backbone colorings have been studied for various types of backbones in a number of papers. The main outcome of earlier studies is that the minimum number $\ell$ of colors, for which such colorings $V\to \{1,2,\ldots, \ell\}$ exist, in the worst case is a factor times the chromatic number (for path, tree, matching and star backbones). We show here that for split graphs and matching or star backbones, $\ell$ is at most a small additive constant (depending on $\gamma$ ) higher than the chromatic number. Our proofs combine algorithmic and combinatorial arguments. We also indicate other graph classes for which our results imply better upper bounds on $\ell$ than the previously known bounds.
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Faculty:	Electrical Engineering, Mathematics and Computer Science (EEMCS)
Research Group:	Discrete Mathematics and Mathematical Programming (DMMP)
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