Vertex Colouring and Forbidden Subgraphs – A Survey

  • Authors:
  • Bert Randerath;Ingo Schiermeyer

  • Affiliations:
  • Universität zu Köln, Institut für Informatik, Germany;TU Bergakademie Freiberg, Institut für Diskrete Mathematik und Algebra, Germany

  • Venue:
  • Graphs and Combinatorics
  • Year:
  • 2004

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Abstract

There is a great variety of colouring concepts and results in the literature. Here our focus is to survey results on vertex colourings of graphs defined in terms of forbidden induced subgraph conditions. Thus, one who wishes to obtain useful results from a graph coloring formulation of his problem must do more than just show that the problem is equivalent to the general problem of coloring a graph. If there is to be any hope, one must also obtain information about the structure of the graphs that need to be colored (D.S. Johnson [66]).