Rainbow Connectivity Using a Rank Genetic Algorithm: Moore Cages with Girth Six

• Main Authors: J. Cervantes-Ojeda, M. Gómez-Fuentes, D. González-Moreno, M. Olsen
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Hindawi Limited 2019-01-01
• Series: Journal of Applied Mathematics
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2019/4073905

A rainbow t-coloring of a t-connected graph G is an edge coloring such that for any two distinct vertices u and v of G there are at least t internally vertex-disjoint rainbow (u,v)-paths. In this work, we apply a Rank Genetic Algorithm to search for rainbow t-colorings of the family of Moore cages with girth six (t;6)-cages. We found that an upper bound in the number of colors needed to produce a rainbow 4-coloring of a (4;6)-cage is 7, improving the one currently known, which is 13. The computation of the minimum number of colors of a rainbow coloring is known to be NP-Hard and the Rank Genetic Algorithm showed good behavior finding rainbow t-colorings with a small number of colors.