Journal of Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications

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JOURNAL OF BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOM ›› 1999, Vol. 22 ›› Issue (4): 14-19.

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Greedy Colouring and Grundy Number

Sun Huiquan   

  1. Department of Information Engineering, Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Beijing 100876
  • Received:1999-05-18 Online:1999-11-10

Abstract: We discuss the relationship between greedy colouringand Grundy number, and we prove that finding Grundy number of a graph is an NP-hard problem.We also introduce the concept of randomly colourable graphs, implore some properties of them and prove that recognizing a graph to be randomly colourable is an NP-hard problem.

Key words: greedy colouring, Grundy number, randomly colourable graph

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