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Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Volume 67, Issue 2, September 2003, Pages 441-471
Special Issue on STOC 2002
 
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Almost all graphs with average degree 4 are 3-colorable

Dimitris AchlioptasE-mail The Corresponding Author, a and Cristopher MooreCorresponding Author Contact Information, E-mail The Corresponding Author, b, c, 1

a Microsoft Research, Redmond, Washington, USA b Computer Science Department, University of New Mexico, Farris Engineering Center, Albuquerque, NM 87131, USA c Santa Fe Institute, Santa Fe, NM, USA

Received 14 July 2002; 
revised 28 December 2002. 
Available online 24 September 2003.

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Abstract

We analyze a randomized version of the Brelaz heuristic on sparse random graphs. We prove that almost all graphs with average degree dless-than-or-equals, slant4.03, i.e., G(n,p=d/n), are 3-colorable and that a constant fraction of all 4-regular graphs are 3-colorable.

Author Keywords: Random graphs; Regular random graphs; Graph coloring; Threshold phenomena

Article Outline

1. Introduction
1.1. Organization of the paper
2. Our algorithm, related work, and motivation
3. The random configuration model
4. Preliminaries and notation
5. Proof outline (and some more definitions)
6. Multitype branching processes
7. A single round as a multitype branching process
8. A single round as a multitype branching process: proofs
9. The method of differential equations
10. Integrating the differential equations
11. Coloring with no degree preference
12. Handling the high-degree vertices
Acknowledgements
References

Journal of Computer and System Sciences
Volume 67, Issue 2, September 2003, Pages 441-471
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