Title
The permutation-path coloring problem on trees
Abstract
In this paper we first show that the permutation-path coloring problem is NP-hard even for very restrictive instances like involutions, which are permutations that contain only cycles of length at most two, on both binary trees and on trees having only two vertices with degree greater than two, and for circular permutations, which are permutations that contain exactly one cycle, on trees with maximum degree greater than or equal to 4. We calculate a lower bound on the average complexity of the permutation-path coloring problem on arbitrary networks. Then we give combinatorial and asymptotic results for the permutation-path coloring problem on linear networks in order to show that the average number of colors needed to color any permutation on a linear network on n vertices is n/4 + o(n). We extend these results and obtain an upper bound on the average complexity of the permutation-path coloring problem on arbitrary trees, obtaining exact results in the case of generalized star trees. Finally we explain how to extend these results for the involutions-path coloring problem on arbitrary trees.
Year
DOI
Venue
2003
10.1016/S0304-3975(02)00635-7
Theoretical Computer Science - Latin American theoretical informatics
Keywords
DocType
Volume
linear network,maximum degree,n vertex,arbitrary network,permutation-path coloring problem,asymptotic result,average complexity,NP-completeness,Path coloring,arbitrary tree,Tree networks,average number,involutions-path coloring problem,Average-case complexity,Routing permutation
Journal
297
Issue
ISSN
Citations 
1-3
0304-3975
5
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.90
19
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Sylvie Corteel126636.33
Mario Valencia-Pabon210615.57
Danièle Gardy341176.32
Dominique Barth4414.29
Alain Denise536628.25