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Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Optimization 3/2017

26-03-2016

A sufficient condition for planar graphs with girth 5 to be (1, 7)-colorable

Authors: Miao Zhang, Min Chen, Yiqiao Wang

Published in: Journal of Combinatorial Optimization | Issue 3/2017

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Abstract

A graph G is \((d_1, d_2)\)-colorable if its vertices can be partitioned into subsets \(V_1\) and \(V_2\) such that in \(G[V_1]\) every vertex has degree at most \(d_1\) and in \(G[V_2]\) every vertex has degree at most \(d_2\). Let \(\mathcal {G}_5\) denote the family of planar graphs with minimum cycle length at least 5. It is known that every graph in \(\mathcal {G}_5\) is \((d_1, d_2)\)-colorable, where \((d_1, d_2)\in \{(2,6), (3,5),(4,4)\}\). We still do not know even if there is a finite positive d such that every graph in \(\mathcal {G}_5\) is (1, d)-colorable. In this paper, we prove that every graph in \(\mathcal {G}_5\) without adjacent 5-cycles is (1, 7)-colorable. This is a partial positive answer to a problem proposed by Choi and Raspaud that is every graph in \(\mathcal {G}_5\;(1, 7)\)-colorable?.

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Metadata
Title
A sufficient condition for planar graphs with girth 5 to be (1, 7)-colorable
Authors
Miao Zhang
Min Chen
Yiqiao Wang
Publication date
26-03-2016
Publisher
Springer US
Published in
Journal of Combinatorial Optimization / Issue 3/2017
Print ISSN: 1382-6905
Electronic ISSN: 1573-2886
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10878-016-0010-3

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