Tight lower bounds for list edge coloring

DOI10.4230/LIPICS.SWAT.2018.28MaRDI QIDQ5116492zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Łukasz Kowalik, Arkadiusz Socała

Publication date 25 August 2020

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.02537

zbMATH Keywords

complexitylist edge coloringETH lower bound

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Analysis of algorithms and problem complexity (68Q25) Graph theory (including graph drawing) in computer science (68R10) Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.) (68Q17) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15)

Abstract: The fastest algorithms for edge coloring run in time $2^m{n}^{O(1)}$, where $m$ and $n$ are the number of edges and vertices of the input graph, respectively. For dense graphs, this bound becomes $2^{Theta(n^2)}$. This is a somewhat unique situation, since most of the studied graph problems admit algorithms running in time $2^{O(nlogn)}$. It is a notorious open problem to either show an algorithm for edge coloring running in time $2^{o(n^2)}$ or to refute it, assuming Exponential Time Hypothesis (ETH) or other well established assumption. We notice that the same question can be asked for list edge coloring, a well-studied generalization of edge coloring where every edge comes with a set (often called a list) of allowed colors. Our main result states that list edge coloring for simple graphs does not admit an algorithm running in time $2^{o(n^2)}$, unless ETH fails. Interestingly, the algorithm for edge coloring running in time $2^m{n}^{O(1)}$ generalizes to the list version without any asymptotic slow-down. Thus, our lower bound is essentially tight. This also means that in order to design an algorithm running in time $2^{o(n^2)}$ for edge coloring, one has to exploit its special features compared to the list version.

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