The complexity of coloring games on perfect graphs

Hans L. Bodlaender, Dieter Kratsch

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    Abstract

    In this paper we consider the following type of game: two players must color the vertices of a given graph G = (V, E), in a prescribed order, in such a way that no two adjacent vertices are colored with the same color. In one variant, the first player which is unable to move loses the game. In another variant, player 1 wins the game, if and only if the game ends with all vertices colored. In this paper, we obtain several results on the complexity of the problem to decide whether there is a winning strategy for player 1 in a given game instance, when G is restricted to split graphs, interval graphs, or bipartite graphs.
    Original languageEnglish
    Pages (from-to)309-326
    Number of pages18
    JournalTheoretical Computer Science
    Volume106
    Issue number2
    Publication statusPublished - 14 Dec 1992

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