The Complexity of Harmonious Colouring for Trees

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  • Keith Edwards
  • Colin McDiarmid
چکیده

A harmonious colouring of a simple graph G is a proper vertex colouring such that each pair of colours appears together on at most one edge. The harmonious chromatic number h(G) is the least number of colours in such a colouring. It was shown by Hopcroft and Krishnamoorthy (1983) that the problem of determining the harmonious chromatic number of a graph is NP-hard. We show here that the problem remains hard even when restricted to trees.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Discrete Applied Mathematics

دوره 57  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 1995