How Many Colors Are Needed to Color the Vertices?
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If a graph is properly colored, the vertices that are assigned a particular color form an independent set. Given a graph G it is easy to find a proper coloring: give every vertex a different color. Clearly the interesting quantity is the minimum number of colors required for a coloring.
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How many colors can be used in a 5 color coloring?
A proper 5-coloring is shown on the right. Notice that the graph contains a copy of the complete graph \\ (K_5\\) so no fewer than 5 colors can be used. In the example above, the chromatic number was 5, but this is not a counterexample to the Four Color Theorem, since the graph representing the radio stations is not planar.
How to find the minimum number of colors required to color a graph?
The edges are given as U [] and V [] such that for each index i, U [i] is connected to V [i]. The task is to find the minimum number of colors needed to color the given graph. For the above graph node 1, 3, and 5 cannot have the same color.
How do you assign colors to different vertices?
The idea is to assign colors one by one to different vertices, starting from the vertex 0. Before assigning a color, we check for safety by considering already assigned colors to the adjacent vertices. If we find a color assignment which is safe, we mark the color assignment as part of solution.
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