The Chromatic Number of Random Intersection Graphs

Abstract

We study problems related to the chromatic number of a random intersection graph G (n,m, p). We introduce two new algorithms which colour G (n,m, p) with almost optimum number of colours with probability tending to 1 as n → ∞. Moreover we find a range of parameters for which the chromatic number of G (n,m, p) asymptotically equals its clique number.

Keywords

• random intersection graphs
• chromatic number
• colouring algorithms