3-colouring AT-free graphs in polynomial time

Determining the complexity of the colouring problem on AT-free graphs is one of long-standing open problems in algorithmic graph theory. One of the reasons behind this is that AT-free graphs are not necessarily perfect unlike many popular subclasses of AT-free graphs such as interval graphs or co-comparability graphs. In this paper, we resolve the smallest open case of this problem, and present the first polynomial time algorithm for the 3-colouring problem on AT-free graphs. © 2012 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC