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How to check whether an arbitrary graph is 3-colorable in time O(2^N)?
By Sayakiss, 13 years ago, In English

n is the number of vertex and Bruteforce is O(3^n)..Thanks in advance. 

(it's a additional exercise of SRM487D1_550pt)

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13 years ago, # |
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Ok, I am twice an idiot, since I wrote previous comment in wrong language. It was wrong comment I think anyway.

Second attempt:

Is it correct, that if graph is not 3-colorable, it necessarily have such 4 vertexes, that have all 6 edges between them?

If true, than we could check C(n,4) combinations of vertexes of the graph and for all of them check this property. It would give O(n^4) but I think I am missing something important.
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13 years ago, # |
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Just fix vertexes which are colored in first color and check that others can be colored into 2 colors. O(2n(n + m)) complexity
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