Extremal optimization at the phase transition of the three-coloring problem

Physical Review E - Statistical, Nonlinear, and Soft Matter Physics

Volumn 69, Issue 6 2, 2004, Pages

  Boettcher, Stefan ^a   Percus, Allon G ^b,c  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COLORING; COMPUTATIONAL COMPLEXITY; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; STATISTICAL METHODS;

BACKTRACKING ALGORITHMS; BIMODAL DISTRIBUTION; EXTREMAL OPTIMIZATION (EO); THREE-COLORING PROBLEM;

PHASE TRANSITIONS;

EID: 36249012990     PISSN: 15393755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevE.69.066703     Document Type: Article

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