Threshold-coloring and unit-cube contact representation of planar graphs

Md Jawaherul Alam, Steven Chaplick, Gasper Fijavz, Kaufmann Michael, Stephen G. Kobourov, Sergey Pupyrev, Jackson Toeniskoetter*

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Abstract

In this paper we study threshold-coloring of graphs, where the vertex colors represented by integers are used to describe any spanning subgraph of the given graph as follows. A pair of vertices with a small difference in their colors implies that the edge between them is present, while a pair of vertices with a big color difference implies that the edge is absent. Not all planar graphs are threshold-colorable, but several subclasses, such as trees, some planar grids, and planar graphs with no short cycles can always be threshold-colored. Using these results we obtain unit-cube contact representation of several subclasses of planar graphs. Variants of the threshold-coloring problem are related to well-known graph coloring and other graph-theoretic problems. Using these relations we show the NP-completeness for two of these variants, and describe a polynomial-time algorithm for another. (C) 2015 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)2-14
JournalDiscrete Applied Mathematics
Volume216
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Externally publishedYes

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