Categories and Subject Descriptors: F.2.2 [Analysis of Algorithms and Problem Complexity]: Nonnumerical Algorithms and Problems; G.2.1 [Discrete Mathematics]: Combinatorics; G.2.2 [Discrete Mathematics]: Graph Theory
General Terms: Algorithms, Optimization, Theory
Additional Key Words and Phrases: Approximation algorithms, chromatic number, graph coloring, NP-completeness, randomized algorithms
Selected references
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