Reconfiguration of Colourings and Dominating Sets in Graphs: a Survey

TL;DR

This survey reviews recent results on reconfiguration graphs related to colourings and dominating sets in graphs, discussing their structures, properties, and open problems in the field.

Contribution

It provides a comprehensive overview of various reconfiguration graphs for colourings and dominating sets, highlighting new conjectures and open problems.

Findings

Analysis of the structure of colourings reconfiguration graphs

Discussion of domination reconfiguration graphs and their properties

Identification of open problems and conjectures in the field

Abstract

We survey results concerning reconfigurations of colourings and dominating sets in graphs. The vertices of the $k$-colouring graph $\mathcal{C}_{k}(G)$ of a graph $G$ correspond to the proper $k$-colourings of a graph $G$, with two $k$-colourings being adjacent whenever they differ in the colour of exactly one vertex. Similarly, the vertices of the $k$-edge-colouring graph $\mathcal{EC}_{k}(G)$ of $g$ are the proper $k$-edge-colourings of $G$, where two $k$-edge-colourings are adjacent if one can be obtained from the other by switching two colours along an edge-Kempe chain, i.e., a maximal two-coloured alternating path or cycle of edges. The vertices of the $k$-dominating graph $\mathcal{D}_{k}(G)$ are the (not necessarily minimal) dominating sets of $G$ of cardinality $k$ or less, two dominating sets being adjacent in $\mathcal{D}_{k}(G)$ if one can be obtained from the other by adding or deleting one vertex. On the other hand, when we restrict the dominating sets to be minimum dominating sets, for example, we obtain different types of domination reconfiguration graphs, depending on whether vertices are exchanged along edges or not. We consider these and related types of colouring and domination reconfiguration graphs. Conjectures, questions and open problems are stated within the relevant sections.