Determining the chromatic number of triangle-free 2P3-free graphs in polynomial time

  • Authors:
  • Hajo Broersma;Petr A. Golovach;Daniël Paulusma;Jian Song

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Theoretical Computer Science
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

Let 2P"3 denote the disjoint union of two paths on three vertices. A graph G that has no subgraph isomorphic to a graph H is called H-free. The Vertex Coloring problem is the problem to determine the chromatic number of a graph. Its computational complexity for triangle-free H-free graphs has been classified for every fixed graph H on at most 6 vertices except for the case H=2P"3. This remaining case is posed as an open problem by Dabrowski, Lozin, Raman and Ries. We solve their open problem by showing polynomial-time solvability.