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A compatible Euler trail (tour) in an edge-colored graph is an Euler trail (tour) in which each two edges traversed consecutively along the Euler trail (tour) have distinct colors. In this paper, we show that the problem of counting compatible Euler trails in edge-colored graphs is \(\#\)P-complete, and develop O(mN) time algorithms for enumerating compatible Euler trails (tours) in edge-colored graphs with m edges and N compatible Euler trails (tours). It is worth mentioning that our algorithms can run in O(N) time when there is no vertex v with degree 4 and maximum monochromatic degree 2.
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Bai, Y., Guo, Z., Zhang, S. et al. Linear amortized time enumeration algorithms for compatible Euler trails in edge-colored graphs. J Comb Optim 45, 73 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-023-01005-w
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