By R. A. Bailey

This quantity comprises the papers provided through the invited teachers on the sixteenth British Combinatorial convention. This biennial assembly is among the most crucial for combinatorialists, attracting prime figures within the box. This assessment of updated study might be a priceless source for researchers and graduate scholars.

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11] F. Bories, Etude du nombre achromatique de certains graphes, in Colloque sur la Theorie des Graphes (Paris, 1974), Cahiers du Centre d'Etudes de Recherche Operationnelle, 17, (1975), pp. 155-171. [12] F. Bories, Sur quelques problemes de colorations completes de sommets et d'aretes de graphes et d'hypergraphes, These de 3eme cycle, Paris, 1975. [13] F. -L. Jolivet, On complete colorings of graphs, in Recent Advances in Graph Theory, (Proceedings of Second Czechoslovak Symposium, Prague, 1974) (ed.

Note that HARMONIOUS COLOURING is solvable in polynomial time for this class of graphs. 4 Applications Although ordinary vertex colourings have many applications, this does not appear to be the case for harmonious or complete colourings. However, Cichelli [24] used a idea similar to harmonious colouring to implement perfect hash functions, and it appears that harmonious colourings could have applications to some forms of data compression. The idea is as follows: Suppose that we wish to store a sparse graph efficiently, while still allowing very fast verification of adjacencies.

Yannakakis and Gavril [84] showed that the ACHROMATIC NUMBER problem Instance Graph G, integer k. Question Is VY(G) > k? Keith Edwards 32 is NP-complete even for the complements of bipartite graphs. This is one of a number of results which follow from their proof that the edge dominating set problem is NP-complete for bipartite graphs of maximum degree 3. Subsequently, ACHROMATIC NUMBER was shown to be NP-complete for bipartite graphs by Farber, Hahn, Hell and Miller [31], using a reduction from PARTITION.

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