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In this paper, we consider the selective graph coloring problem. Given an integer k ≥ 1 and a graph G = (V,E) with a partition V 1,…,V p of V, it consists in deciding whether there exists a set V * in G such that |V * ∩ V i | = 1 for all i ∈ {1,…,p}, and such that the graph induced by V * is k-colorable. We investigate the complexity status of this problem in various classes of graphs.
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Demange, M., Monnot, J., Pop, P., Ries, B. (2012). Selective Graph Coloring in Some Special Classes of Graphs. In: Mahjoub, A.R., Markakis, V., Milis, I., Paschos, V.T. (eds) Combinatorial Optimization. ISCO 2012. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 7422. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-32147-4_29
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