clarke@csri.toronto.edu (Jim Clarke) (11/24/88)
COMBINATORICS SEMINAR - Friday, December 2, 11:15 a.m. in RS 310 (RS = Rosebrugh Building, 8 Taddle Creek Road) Lucien Haddad Physical Sciences Division University of Toronto "Strong n-coloring of Relations" An n-ary areflexive relation rho on a set A is a subset rho !subset A ** n such that for every (x1, ..., xn) in rho and every 1 <= i < j <= n, xi != xj. We assume that the areflexive relation rho has a certain symmetry and we study the complexity of finding a strong n-coloring for rho, (a generalization of the concept of graph coloring). In particular we find a polynomial reduction from the H-coloring problem for graphs to the strong n-coloring problem for relations. -- Jim Clarke -- Dept. of Computer Science, Univ. of Toronto, Canada M5S 1A4 (416) 978-4058 BITNET,CSNET: clarke@csri.toronto.edu CDNNET: clarke@csri.toronto.cdn UUCP: {allegra,cornell,decvax,linus,utzoo}!utcsri!clarke