An Algorithm for the Chromatic Number of a Graph

  • Authors:
  • Chung C. Wang

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science, University of Kentucky, 915 Office tower, Lexington, KY and State University of New York at Buffalo, Amherst, New York

  • Venue:
  • Journal of the ACM (JACM)
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

Christofides' algorithm for finding the chromatic number of a graph is improved both in speed and memory space by using a depth-first search rule to search for a shortest path in a reduced subgraph tree.