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Frozen (Δ + 1)-colourings of bounded degree graphs

Part of: Graph theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 October 2020

Marthe Bonamy ,
Nicolas Bousquet  and
Guillem Perarnau
Marthe Bonamy
Affiliation:
CNRS, LaBRI, Université de Bordeaux, France
Nicolas Bousquet
Affiliation:
LIRIS, CNRS, Université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, Lyon, France
Guillem Perarnau*
Affiliation:
Departament de Matemàtiques (MAT), Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC), Barcelona, Spain
*
*Corresponding author. Email: guillem.perarnau@upc.edu
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Let G be a graph on n vertices and with maximum degree Δ, and let k be an integer. The k-recolouring graph of G is the graph whose vertices are k-colourings of G and where two k-colourings are adjacent if they differ at exactly one vertex. It is well known that the k-recolouring graph is connected for $k\geq \Delta+2$. Feghali, Johnson and Paulusma (J. Graph Theory 83 (2016) 340–358) showed that the (Δ + 1)-recolouring graph is composed by a unique connected component of size at least 2 and (possibly many) isolated vertices.

In this paper, we study the proportion of isolated vertices (also called frozen colourings) in the (Δ + 1)-recolouring graph. Our first contribution is to show that if G is connected, the proportion of frozen colourings of G is exponentially smaller in n than the total number of colourings. This motivates the use of the Glauber dynamics to approximate the number of (Δ + 1)-colourings of a graph. In contrast to the conjectured mixing time of O(nlog n) for $k\geq \Delta+2$ colours, we show that the mixing time of the Glauber dynamics for (Δ + 1)-colourings restricted to non-frozen colourings can be Ω(n2). Finally, we prove some results about the existence of graphs with large girth and frozen colourings, and study frozen colourings in random regular graphs.

MSC classification

Primary: 05C15: Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 30 , Issue 3 , May 2021 , pp. 330 - 343
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