Precoloring extension on unit interval graphs

  • Authors:
  • Dániel Marx

  • Affiliations:
  • Department of Computer Science and Information Theory, Budapest University of Technology and Economics, Budapest, Hungary

  • Venue:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics
  • Year:
  • 2006

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Abstract

In the precoloring extension problem a graph is given with some of the vertices having preassigned colors and it has to be decided whether this coloring can be extended to a proper k-coloring of the graph. Answering an open question of Hujter and Tuza [Precoloring extension. III. Classes of perfect graphs, Combin. Probab. Comput. 5 (1) (1996) 35-56], we show that the precoloring extension problem is NP-complete on unit interval graphs.