The game chromatic number of dense random graphs

zbMATH Open1305.05144arXiv1406.7126MaRDI QIDQ490261FDOQ490261

Angelika Steger, Ralph Keusch

Publication date: 22 January 2015

Published in: The Electronic Journal of Combinatorics (Search for Journal in Brave)

Abstract: Suppose that two players take turns coloring the vertices of a given graph G with k colors. In each move the current player colors a vertex such that neighboring vertices get different colors. The first player wins this game if and only if at the end, all the vertices are colored. The game chromatic number $ch{i}_g(G)$ is defined as the smallest k for which the first player has a winning strategy. Recently, Bohman, Frieze and Sudakov [Random Structures and Algorithms 2008] analysed the game chromatic number of random graphs and obtained lower and upper bounds of the same order of magnitude. In this paper we improve existing results and show that with high probability, the game chromatic number $ch{i}_g(G_{n,p})$ of dense random graphs is asymptotically twice as large as the ordinary chromatic number $chi(G_{n,p})$.

Full work available at URL: https://arxiv.org/abs/1406.7126

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zbMATH Keywords

random graphsgame chromatic number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) 2-person games (91A05) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Games on graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C57) Games involving graphs (91A43)

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