On Sampling Colorings of Bipartite Graphs

We study the problem of efficiently sampling k-colorings of bipartite graphs. We show that a class of markov chains cannot be used as efficient samplers. Precisely, we show that, for any k, 6 ≤ k ≤ n {1/3-ε}, ε > 0 fixed, almost every bipartite graph on n+n vertices is such that the...

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Main Authors: R. Balasubramanian, C. R. Subramanian
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science 2006-01-01
Series:Discrete Mathematics & Theoretical Computer Science
Online Access:http://www.dmtcs.org/dmtcs-ojs/index.php/dmtcs/article/view/448