The complexity of determining the rainbow vertex-connection of graphs
(1101.3126)Abstract
A vertex-colored graph is {\it rainbow vertex-connected} if any two vertices are connected by a path whose internal vertices have distinct colors, which was introduced by Krivelevich and Yuster. The {\it rainbow vertex-connection} 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 this paper, we study the computational complexity of vertex-rainbow connection of graphs and prove that computing $rvc(G)$ is NP-Hard. Moreover, we show that it is already NP-Complete to decide whether $rvc(G)=2$. We also prove that the following problem is NP-Complete: given a vertex-colored graph $G$, check whether the given coloring makes $G$ rainbow vertex-connected.
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