The vertex-colouring {a,b}-edge-weighting problem is NP-complete for every pair of weights

Let G be a graph. From an edge-weighting w : E(G) -> {a,b} of G such that a and b are two distinct real numbers, one obtains a vertex-colouring chi_w of G defined as chi_w(u) = sum_{v in N(u)} w(uv) for every u in V(G). If chi_w is a proper colouring of G, i.e. two adjacent vertices of G receive distinct colours by chi_w, then we say that w is vertex-colouring. We investigate the complexity of the problem of deciding whether a graph admits a vertex-colouring edge-weighting taking values among a given pair {a,b}, which is already known to be NP-complete when {a,b} is either {0,1} or {1,2}. We show this problem to be NP-complete for every pair of real weights.

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Source https://hal.science/hal-00826346
Author Bensmail, Julien
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 11, 2026, 00:20 (UTC)
Created May 11, 2026, 00:20 (UTC)
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contributor Laboratoire Bordelais de Recherche en Informatique (LaBRI) ; Université de Bordeaux (UB)-École Nationale Supérieure d'Électronique, Informatique et Radiocommunications de Bordeaux (ENSEIRB)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)
creator Bensmail, Julien
date 2013-06-23T00:00:00
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