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Proper colorings of a graph in linear time using a number of colors linear in the maximum degree of the graph

Published: December 30, 2025 | arXiv ID: 2512.24522v1

By: Kritika Bhandari, Mark Huber

A new algorithm for exactly sampling from the set of proper colorings of a graph is presented. This is the first such algorithm that has an expected running time that is guaranteed to be linear in the size of a graph with maximum degree \( Δ\) when the number of colors is greater than \( 3.637 Δ+ 1\).

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