Weak Coloring Numbers of Intersection Graphs

DOI10.4230/LIPICS.SOCG.2022.39arXiv2103.17094MaRDI QIDQ6364240FDOQ6364240

Authors: Zdeněk Dvořák, Jakub Pekárek, Torsten Ueckerdt, Yelena Yuditsky 

Publication date: 31 March 2021

Abstract: Weak and strong coloring numbers are generalizations of the degeneracy of a graph, where for each natural number $k$, we seek a vertex ordering such every vertex can (weakly respectively strongly) reach in $k$ steps only few vertices with lower index in the ordering. Both notions capture the sparsity of a graph or a graph class, and have interesting applications in the structural and algorithmic graph theory. Recently, the first author together with McCarty and Norin observed a natural volume-based upper bound for the strong coloring numbers of intersection graphs of well-behaved objects in $mathbb{R}^d$, such as homothets of a centrally symmetric compact convex object, or comparable axis-aligned boxes. In this paper, we prove upper and lower bounds for the $k$-th weak coloring numbers of these classes of intersection graphs. As a consequence, we describe a natural graph class whose strong coloring numbers are polynomial in $k$, but the weak coloring numbers are exponential. We also observe a surprising difference in terms of the dependence of the weak coloring numbers on the dimension between touching graphs of balls (single-exponential) and hypercubes (double-exponential).

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Computer graphics; computational geometry (digital and algorithmic aspects) (68U05)

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