Coloring chip configurations on graphs and digraphs

Let D be a simple directed graph. Suppose that each edge of D is assigned with some number of chips. For a vertex v of D, let q + ( v ) and q − ( v ) be the total number of chips lying on the arcs outgoing form v and incoming to v, respectively. Let q ( v ) = q + ( v ) − q − ( v ) . We prove that th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Information processing letters 2012-01, Vol.112 (1), p.1-4
Hauptverfasser: Borowiecki, Mieczysław, Grytczuk, Jarosław, Pilśniak, Monika
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Zusammenfassung:Let D be a simple directed graph. Suppose that each edge of D is assigned with some number of chips. For a vertex v of D, let q + ( v ) and q − ( v ) be the total number of chips lying on the arcs outgoing form v and incoming to v, respectively. Let q ( v ) = q + ( v ) − q − ( v ) . We prove that there is always a chip arrangement, with one or two chips per edge, such that q ( v ) is a proper coloring of D. We also show that every undirected graph G can be oriented so that adjacent vertices have different balanced degrees (or even different in-degrees). The arguments are based on peculiar chip shifting operation which provides efficient algorithms for obtaining the desired chip configurations. We also investigate modular versions of these problems. We prove that every k-colorable digraph has a coloring chip configuration modulo k or k + 1 .
ISSN:0020-0190
1872-6119
DOI:10.1016/j.ipl.2011.09.011