Proper connection number of random graphs

DOI10.1016/J.TCS.2015.10.017MaRDI QIDQ897901zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Ran Gu, Xueliang Li, Zhongmei Qin

Publication date 8 December 2015

Published in Theoretical Computer Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/1505.04646

zbMATH Keywords

proper-path coloringproper connection number

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Random graphs (graph-theoretic aspects) (05C80) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15) Paths and cycles (05C38) Connectivity (05C40)

Abstract: A path in an edge-colored graph is called a proper path if no two adjacent edges of the path are colored the same. For a connected graph $G$, the proper connection number $pc(G)$ of $G$ is defined as the minimum number of colors needed to color its edges, so that every pair of distinct vertices of $G$ is connected by at least one proper path in $G$. In this paper, we show that almost all graphs have the proper connection number 2. More precisely, let $G(n,p)$ denote the Erd"{o}s-R'{e}nyi random graph model, in which each of the $$ pairs of vertices appears as an edge with probability $p$ independent from other pairs. We prove that for sufficiently large $n$, $pc(G(n,p))le2$ if $pgefraclogn+alpha(n)n$, where $alpha(n)ightarrowinfty$.

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