0Discussiones Mathematicae Graph Theory 35 (2015) 157-169 doi: 10.7151/dmgt. 1786
OPTIMAL BACKBONE COLORING OF SPLIT GRAPHS WITH MATCHING BACKBONES
KRZYSZTOF TUROWSKI1
Gdansk University of Technology Department of Algorithms and System Modelling
e-mail: Krzysztof.Turowski@eti.pg.gda.pl.
Abstract
For a graph G with a given subgraph H, the backbone coloring is defined as the mapping c : V(G) ^ N+ such that |c(u) — c(v)| > 2 for each edge {u,v} e E(H) and |c(u) — c(v)| > 1 for each edge {u,v} e E(G). The backbone chromatic number BBC(G, H) is the smallest integer k such that there exists a backbone coloring with max„£V(G) c(v) = k.
In this paper, we present the algorithm for the backbone coloring of split graphs with matching backbone.
Keywords: backbone coloring, split graphs, matching. 2010 Mathematics Subject Classification: 05C15.
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1This project has been partially supported by Narodowe Centrum Nauki under contract DEC-2011/02/A/ST6/00201.
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Received 1 December 2011 Revised 18 November 2013 Accepted 1 May 2014
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