Title
Swapping Colored Tokens on Graphs.
Abstract
Abstract We investigate the computational complexity of the following problem. We are given a graph in which each vertex has an initial and a target color. Each pair of adjacent vertices can swap their current colors. Our goal is to perform the minimum number of swaps so that the current and target colors agree at each vertex. When the colors are chosen from { 1 , 2 , … , c } , we call this problem c -Colored Token Swapping since the current color of a vertex can be seen as a colored token placed on the vertex. We show that c -Colored Token Swapping is NP-complete for c = 3 even if input graphs are restricted to connected planar bipartite graphs of maximum degree 3. We then show that 2 -Colored Token Swapping can be solved in polynomial time for general graphs and in linear time for trees. Besides, we show that, the problem for complete graphs is fixed-parameter tractable when parameterized by the number of colors, while it is known to be NP-complete when the number of colors is unbounded.
Year
DOI
Venue
2018
10.1007/978-3-319-21840-3_51
workshop on algorithms and data structures
DocType
Volume
Citations 
Journal
abs/1803.06816
2
PageRank 
References 
Authors
0.37
8
7
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Katsuhisa Yamanaka16015.73
Takashi Horiyama28119.76
David G. Kirkpatrick32394541.05
Yota Otachi416137.16
Toshiki Saitoh58714.95
Ryuhei Uehara652875.38
yushi uno722228.80