An algebraic characterization of rainbow connectivity

  • Authors:
  • Prabhanjan Ananth;Ambedkar Dukkipati

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India;Department of Computer Science and Automation, Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, India

  • Venue:
  • CASC'12 Proceedings of the 14th international conference on Computer Algebra in Scientific Computing
  • Year:
  • 2012

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Abstract

The use of algebraic techniques to solve combinatorial problems is studied in this paper. We formulate the rainbow connectivity problem as a system of polynomial equations. We first consider the case of two colors for which the problem is known to be hard and we then extend the approach to the general case. We also present a formulation of the rainbow connectivity problem as an ideal membership problem.