Acyclic colorings of graph subdivisions revisited

  • Authors:
  • Debajyoti Mondal;Rahnuma Islam Nishat;Sue Whitesides;Md. Saidur Rahman

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Manitoba, Canada;Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Canada;Department of Computer Science, University of Victoria, Canada;Graph Drawing and Information Visualization Laboratory, Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology, Bangladesh

  • Venue:
  • Journal of Discrete Algorithms
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

An acyclic coloring of a graph G is a coloring of the vertices of G, where no two adjacent vertices of G receive the same color and no cycle of G is bichromatic. An acyclic k-coloring of G is an acyclic coloring of G using at most k colors. In this paper we prove that any triangulated plane graph G with n vertices has a subdivision that is acyclically 3-colorable, where the number of division vertices is at most 2.75n-6. This upper bound on the number of division vertices reduces to 2n-6 in the case of acyclic 4-coloring. We show that it is NP-complete to decide whether a graph with degree at most 6 is acyclically 4-colorable or not. Furthermore, we give some upper bounds on the number of division vertices for acyclic 3-coloring of subdivisions of k-trees and cubic graphs.