
arXiv: 1110.1915
A vertex-colored graph $G$ is {\it rainbow vertex-connected} if any pair of vertices in $G$ are connected by a path whose internal vertices have distinct colors, which was introduced by Krivelevich and Yuster. The {\it rainbow vertex-connection number} of a connected graph $G$, denoted by $rvc(G)$, is the smallest number of colors that are needed in order to make $G$ rainbow vertex-connected. In a previous paper we showed that it is NP-Complete to decide whether a given graph $G$ has $rvc(G)=2$. In this paper we show that for every integer $k\geq 2$, deciding whether $rvc(G)\leq k$ is NP-Hard. We also show that for any fixed integer $k\geq 2$, this problem belongs to NP-class, and so it becomes NP-Complete.
10 pages
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Connectivity, NP-hard, Computational Complexity (cs.CC), vertex-colored graph, rainbow vertex-connection number, Computer Science - Computational Complexity, Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs, FOS: Mathematics, Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.), Mathematics - Combinatorics, 05C15, 05C40, 68Q17, 68Q25, 90C27, Combinatorics (math.CO), NP-complete
FOS: Computer and information sciences, Connectivity, NP-hard, Computational Complexity (cs.CC), vertex-colored graph, rainbow vertex-connection number, Computer Science - Computational Complexity, Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs, FOS: Mathematics, Computational difficulty of problems (lower bounds, completeness, difficulty of approximation, etc.), Mathematics - Combinatorics, 05C15, 05C40, 68Q17, 68Q25, 90C27, Combinatorics (math.CO), NP-complete
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