Trade-offs in dynamic coloring for bipartite and general graphs

Abstract

We present trade-offs in the incremental and fully dynamic settings to maintian a proper coloring. For any fully dynamic $2$-coloring algorithm, the maximum of the update time, number of recolorings, and query time is $Ω(\log n)$. We present a deterministic fully dynamic $2$-coloring algorithm with $O(\log^2 n)$ amortized update time, $O(\log n)$ amortized query time, and one recoloring in the worst case. For any incremental $2$-coloring algorithm which explicitly maintains the color of every vertex after each update, the amortized update time and the amortized number of recolorings is $Ω(\log n)$. For such an algorithm, in the worst case the update time and the number of recolorings is $Ω(n)$. We then design a deterministic incremental $2$-coloring algorithm which explicitly maintains the color of every vertex after each update, with amortized $O(\log n)$ update time and amortized $O(\log n)$ many recolorings. Further, in the worst case the update time and the number of recolorings is $O(n)$. Further, we present a deterministic incremental $(1+2 \log n)$-coloring algorithm which explicitly maintains the color of every vertex after each update, with $O(α(n))$ amortized update time, at most one recoloring and $O(1)$ query time. We then show a deterministic incremental $2$-coloring algorithm which does not maintain color of every vertex after each update, with amortized $O(α(n))$ update time, amortized $O(α(n))$ recolorings, and amortized $O(α(n))$ query time. For general graphs and graphs of bounded arboricity $γ$ and maximum degree $Δ$ we present a deterministic $(Δ+1)$-coloring algorithm with $O(\sqrt{m})$ update time, $O(1)$ query time, and one recoloring. Finally, we show a deterministic $(Δ+1)$-coloring algorithm with amortized $O(γ+ \log{n})$ update time, $O(1)$ query time, and one recoloring.