Title
Cliques, holes and the vertex coloring polytope
Abstract
Certain subgraphs of a given graph G restrict the minimum number χ(G) of colors that can be assigned to the vertices of G such that the endpoints of all edges receive distinct colors. Some of such subgraphs are related to the celebrated Strong Perfect Graph Theorem, as it implies that every graph G contains a clique of size χ(G), or an odd hole or an odd anti-hole as an induced subgraph. In this paper, we investigate the impact of induced maximal cliques, odd holes and odd anti-holes on the polytope associated with a new 0-1 integer programming formulation of the graph coloring problem. We show that they induce classes of facet defining inequalities.
Year
DOI
Venue
2004
10.1016/j.ipl.2003.11.005
Inf. Process. Lett.
Keywords
Field
DocType
perfect graph,graph coloring,integer programming,graph coloring problem
Perfect graph,Edge coloring,Discrete mathematics,Combinatorics,Fractional coloring,Graph power,Clique graph,Graph factorization,Factor-critical graph,Mathematics,Perfect graph theorem
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
89
4
0020-0190
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
33
1.92
5
Authors
3
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Manoel B. Campêlo115119.59
Ricardo C. Corrêa220718.74
Yuri Frota310513.98