Abstract
We present an algorithm to color a graph G with no triangle and no induced 7-vertex path (i.e., a {P7,C3}-free graph), where every vertex is assigned a list of possible colors which is a subset of {1,2,3}. While this is a special case of the problem solved in Bonomo et al. (2018) [1], that does not require the absence of triangles, the algorithm here is both faster and conceptually simpler. The complexity of the algorithm is O(|V(G)|5(|V(G)|+|E(G)|)), and if G is bipartite, it improves to O(|V(G)|2(|V(G)|+|E(G)|)).Moreover, we prove that there are finitely many minimal obstructions to list 3-coloring {Pt,C3}-free graphs if and only if t≤7. This implies the existence of a polynomial time certifying algorithm for list 3-coloring in {P7,C3}-free graphs. We furthermore determine other cases of t,ℓ, and k such that the family of minimal obstructions to list k-coloring in {Pt,Cℓ}-free graphs is finite.
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