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3-着色$H$ -列图的复杂性

The complexity of 3-colouring $H$-colourable graphs

Andrei Krokhin, Jakub Opršal

摘要:

研究了图同态问题在可满足实例上的逼近的复杂性。对于一个固定图$H$,$H$ -着色问题是判定一个给定的图是否与$H$有同态.根据Hell和Nešetzil的一个结果,对于任何非二部图$H$,该问题都是NP-难的.在Promise约束满足问题的背景下,Brakensiek和Guruswami证明了这个硬度结果扩展到Promise图同态如下:固定任何非二部图$H$和另一个图$G$具有从$H$到$G$的同态,从给定的$H$ -列图找到到$G$的同态是NP-困难的。可以说,这个猜想的两个最重要的特殊情况是当$H$固定为3点完全图时($G$是任何带三角形的图)和当$G$是3点完全图时($H$是任何3-列图)。前一种情况等价于众所周知的困难的近似图着色问题。在本文中,我们证实了Brakensiek-Guruswami猜想后一种情况。我们的证明依赖于一个新的组合的普遍代数方法来承诺约束满足,这是最近开发的Barto,Bulín和作者,从代数拓扑的一些想法。

英文摘要:

We study the complexity of approximation on satisfiable instances for graph homomorphism problems. For a fixed graph $H$, the $H$-colouring problem is to decide whether a given graph has a homomorphism to $H$. By a result of Hell and Nešetřil, this problem is NP-hard for any non-bipartite graph $H$. In the context of promise constraint satisfaction problems, Brakensiek and Guruswami conjectured that this hardness result extends to promise graph homomorphism as follows: fix any non-bipartite graph $H$ and another graph $G$ with a homomorphism from $H$ to $G$, it is NP-hard to find a homomorphism to $G$ from a given $H$-colourable graph. Arguably, the two most important special cases of this conjecture are when $H$ is fixed to be the complete graph on 3 vertices (and $G$ is any graph with a triangle) and when $G$ is the complete graph on 3 vertices (and $H$ is any 3-colourable graph). The former case is equivalent to the notoriously difficult approximate graph colouring problem. In this paper, we confirm the Brakensiek-Guruswami conjecture for the latter case. Our proofs rely on a novel combination of the universal-algebraic approach to promise constraint satisfaction, that was recently developed by Barto, Bulín and the authors, with some ideas from algebraic topology.

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