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arXiv 2007-09-27 1 views

The complexity of nonrepetitive edge coloring of graphs

Manin, Fedor

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A squarefree word is a sequence w of symbols such that there are no strings x, y, and z for which w=xyyz. A nonrepetitive coloring of a graph is an edge coloring in which the sequence of colors along any open path is squarefree. We show that determining whether a graph G has a nonrepetitive k-coloring is Σ₂ᵖ-complete. When we restrict to paths of lengths at most n, the problem becomes NP-complete for fixed n.

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