2023/02/21 by J Pintér, Pintér, József, Kitti Varga +1 · 2 citations
Computer Science · #Advanced Graph Theory Research #Combinatorics (math.CO) #FOS: Mathematics #Graph Labeling and Dimension Problems #Interconnection Networks and Systems
paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.2302.11035
openalex publication_date 2023/02/21 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We call a (not necessarily properly) edge-colored graph edge-color-avoiding connected if after the removal of edges of any single color, the graph remains connected. For vertex-colored graphs, similar definitions of color-avoiding connectivity can be given. In this article, we investigate the problem of determining the maximum number of edges that can be removed from a color-avoiding connected graph so that it remains color-avoiding connected. First, we prove that this problem is NP-hard, then we give a polynomial-time approximation algorithm for it. To analyze the approximation factor of this algorithm, we determine the minimum number of edges of color-avoiding connected graphs on a given number of vertices and with a given number of colors. Furthermore, we also consider a generalization of edge-color-avoiding connectivity to matroids.