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PlanarColoring< Graph > Class Template Reference


Detailed Description

template<typename Graph>
class lemon::PlanarColoring< Graph >

The graph coloring problem is the coloring of the graph nodes so that there are no adjacent nodes with the same color. The planar graphs can always be colored with four colors, which is proved by Appel and Haken. Their proofs provide a quadratic time algorithm for four coloring, but it could not be used to implement an efficient algorithm. The five and six coloring can be made in linear time, but in this class, the five coloring has quadratic worst case time complexity. The two coloring (if possible) is solvable with a graph search algorithm and it is implemented in bipartitePartitions() function in LEMON. To decide whether a planar graph is three colorable is NP-complete.

This class contains member functions for calculate colorings with five and six colors. The six coloring algorithm is a simple greedy coloring on the backward minimum outgoing order of nodes. This order can be computed by selecting the node with least outgoing arcs to unprocessed nodes in each phase. This order guarantees that when a node is chosen for coloring it has at most five already colored adjacents. The five coloring algorithm use the same method, but if the greedy approach fails to color with five colors, i.e. the node has five already different colored neighbours, it swaps the colors in one of the connected two colored sets with the Kempe recoloring method.

#include <lemon/planarity.h>

List of all members.

Public Types

typedef Graph::template
NodeMap< int > 
IndexMap
 The map type for storing color indices.
typedef ComposeMap< Palette,
IndexMap
ColorMap
 The map type for storing colors.

Public Member Functions

 PlanarColoring (const Graph &graph)
 Constructor.
IndexMap colorIndexMap () const
 Return the node map of color indices.
ColorMap colorMap () const
 Return the node map of colors.
int colorIndex (const Node &node) const
 Return the color index of the node.
Color color (const Node &node) const
 Return the color of the node.
bool runSixColoring ()
 Calculate a coloring with at most six colors.
template<typename EmbeddingMap >
void runFiveColoring (const EmbeddingMap &embedding)
 Calculate a coloring with at most five colors.
bool runFiveColoring ()
 Calculate a coloring with at most five colors.

Member Typedef Documentation

The map type for storing colors.

See also:
Palette, Color

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

PlanarColoring ( const Graph &  graph) [inline]

Constructor.

Precondition:
The graph must be simple, i.e. it should not contain parallel or loop arcs.

Member Function Documentation

IndexMap colorIndexMap ( ) const [inline]

This function returns the node map of color indices. The values are in the range [0..4] or [0..5] according to the coloring method.

ColorMap colorMap ( ) const [inline]

This function returns the node map of colors. The values are among five or six distinct colors.

int colorIndex ( const Node &  node) const [inline]

This function returns the color index of the given node. The value is in the range [0..4] or [0..5] according to the coloring method.

Color color ( const Node &  node) const [inline]

This function returns the color of the given node. The value is among five or six distinct colors.

bool runSixColoring ( ) [inline]

This function calculates a coloring with at most six colors. The time complexity of this variant is linear in the size of the graph.

Returns:
true if the algorithm could color the graph with six colors. If the algorithm fails, then the graph is not planar.
Note:
This function can return true if the graph is not planar, but it can be colored with at most six colors.
void runFiveColoring ( const EmbeddingMap &  embedding) [inline]

This function calculates a coloring with at most five colors. The worst case time complexity of this variant is quadratic in the size of the graph.

Parameters:
embeddingThis map should contain a valid combinatorical embedding, i.e. a valid cyclic order of the arcs. It can be computed using PlanarEmbedding.
bool runFiveColoring ( ) [inline]

This function calculates a coloring with at most five colors. The worst case time complexity of this variant is quadratic in the size of the graph.

Returns:
true if the graph is planar.
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