In graph theory, an area of mathematics, an equitable coloring is an assignment of colors to the vertices of an undirected graph, in such a way that
No two adjacent vertices have the same color, and
The numbers of vertices in any two color classes differ by at most one.
That is, the partition of vertices among the different colors is as uniform as possible. For instance, giving each vertex a distinct color would be equitable, but would typically use many more colors than are necessary in an optimal equitable coloring. An equivalent way of defining an equitable coloring is that it is an embedding of the given graph as a subgraph of a Turán graph with the same set of vertices. There are two kinds of chromatic number associated with equitable coloring.[1] The equitable chromatic number of a graph G is the smallest number k such that G has an equitable coloring with k colors. But G might not have equitable colorings for some larger numbers of colors; the equitable chromatic threshold of G is the smallest k such that G has equitable colorings for any number of colors greater than or equal to k.[2]
The Hajnal–Szemerédi theorem, posed as a conjecture by Paul Erdős (1964) and proven by András Hajnal and Endre Szemerédi (1970), states that any graph with maximum degree Δ has an equitable coloring with Δ + 1 colors. Several related conjectures remain open. Polynomial time algorithms are also known for finding a coloring matching this bound,[3] and for finding optimal colorings of special classes of graphs, but the more general problem of deciding whether an arbitrary graph has an equitable coloring with a given number of colors is NP-complete.
^Furmańczyk (2006).
^Note that, when k is greater than the number of vertices in the graph, there nevertheless exists an equitable coloring with k colors in which all color classes have zero or one vertices in them, so every graph has an equitable chromatic threshold.
^Kierstead, Henry A.; Kostochka, Alexandr V.; Mydlarz, Marcelo; Szemerédi, Endre (2010-09-17). "A fast algorithm for equitable coloring". Combinatorica. 30 (2): 217–224. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.224.5588. doi:10.1007/s00493-010-2483-5. ISSN 0209-9683. S2CID 18721867.
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