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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals

New Graph Calculi for Planar Non-3-Colorable Graphs

Yoichi HANATANI, Takashi HORIYAMA, Kazuo IWAMA, Suguru TAMAKI

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The Hajos calculus is a nondeterministic procedure which generates the class of non-3-colorable graphs. If all non-3-colorable graphs can be constructed in polynomial steps by the calculus, then NP = co-NP holds. Up to date, however, it remains open whether there exists a family of graphs that cannot be generated in polynomial steps. To attack this problem, we propose two graph calculi PHC and PHC* that generate non-3-colorable planar graphs, where intermediate graphs in the calculi are also restricted to be planar. Then we prove that PHC and PHC* are sound and complete. We also show that PHC* can polynomially simulate PHC.

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IEICE TRANSACTIONS on Fundamentals Vol.E91-A No.9 pp.2301-2307
Publication Date
2008/09/01
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Online ISSN
1745-1337
DOI
10.1093/ietfec/e91-a.9.2301
Type of Manuscript
Special Section PAPER (Special Section on Discrete Mathematics and Its Applications)
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