scholarly journals Planar Graphs of Maximum Degree 6 and without Adjacent 8-Cycles Are 6-Edge-Colorable

2021 ◽  
Vol 2021 ◽  
pp. 1-10
Author(s):  
Wenwen Zhang

In this paper, by applying the discharging method, we show that if G is a planar graph with a maximum degree of Δ = 6 that does not contain any adjacent 8-cycles, then G is of class 1.

10.37236/2589 ◽  
2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danjun Huang ◽  
Weifan Wang

In this paper, we prove that every planar graph of maximum degree six without 7-cycles is class one.


10.37236/3509 ◽  
2015 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
M. Montassier ◽  
P. Ochem

A graph $G$ is $(d_1,...,d_l)$-colorable if the vertex set of $G$ can be partitioned into subsets $V_1,\ldots ,V_l$ such that the graph $G[V_i]$ induced by the vertices of $V_i$ has maximum degree at most $d_i$ for all $1 \leq i \leq l$. In this paper, we focus on complexity aspects of such colorings when $l=2,3$. More precisely, we prove that, for any fixed integers $k,j,g$ with $(k,j) \neq (0,0)$ and $g\geq3$, either every planar graph with girth at least $g$ is $(k,j)$-colorable or it is NP-complete to determine whether a planar graph with girth at least $g$ is $(k,j)$-colorable. Also, for any fixed integer $k$, it is NP-complete to determine whether a planar graph that is either $(0,0,0)$-colorable or non-$(k,k,1)$-colorable is $(0,0,0)$-colorable. Additionally, we exhibit non-$(3,1)$-colorable planar graphs with girth 5 and non-$(2,0)$-colorable planar graphs with girth 7. 


2020 ◽  
Vol 2020 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Enqiang Zhu ◽  
Yongsheng Rao

A total k-coloring of a graph is an assignment of k colors to its vertices and edges such that no two adjacent or incident elements receive the same color. The total coloring conjecture (TCC) states that every simple graph G has a total ΔG+2-coloring, where ΔG is the maximum degree of G. This conjecture has been confirmed for planar graphs with maximum degree at least 7 or at most 5, i.e., the only open case of TCC is that of maximum degree 6. It is known that every planar graph G of ΔG≥9 or ΔG∈7,8 with some restrictions has a total ΔG+1-coloring. In particular, in (Shen and Wang, 2009), the authors proved that every planar graph with maximum degree 6 and without 4-cycles has a total 7-coloring. In this paper, we improve this result by showing that every diamond-free and house-free planar graph of maximum degree 6 is totally 7-colorable if every 6-vertex is not incident with two adjacent four cycles or three cycles of size p,q,ℓ for some p,q,ℓ∈3,4,4,3,3,4.


2014 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 551-570 ◽  
Author(s):  
LOUIS ESPERET ◽  
GWENAËL JORET

We prove the existence of a function $f :\mathbb{N} \to \mathbb{N}$ such that the vertices of every planar graph with maximum degree Δ can be 3-coloured in such a way that each monochromatic component has at most f(Δ) vertices. This is best possible (the number of colours cannot be reduced and the dependence on the maximum degree cannot be avoided) and answers a question raised by Kleinberg, Motwani, Raghavan and Venkatasubramanian in 1997. Our result extends to graphs of bounded genus.


10.37236/7084 ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 25 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Grzegorz Gutowski ◽  
Ming Han ◽  
Tomasz Krawczyk ◽  
Xuding Zhu

A $d$-defective $k$-painting game on a graph $G$ is played by two players: Lister and Painter. Initially, each vertex is uncolored and has $k$ tokens. In each round, Lister marks a chosen set $M$ of uncolored vertices and removes one token from each marked vertex. In response, Painter colors vertices in a subset $X$ of $M$ which induce a subgraph $G[X]$ of maximum degree at most $d$. Lister wins the game if at the end of some round there is an uncolored vertex that has no more tokens left. Otherwise, all vertices eventually get colored and Painter wins the game. We say that $G$ is $d$-defective $k$-paintable if Painter has a winning strategy in this game. In this paper we show that every planar graph is 3-defective 3-paintable and give a construction of a planar graph that is not 2-defective 3-paintable.


10.37236/5895 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ligang Jin ◽  
Yingli Kang ◽  
Eckhard Steffen

The only remaining case of a well known conjecture of Vizing states that there is no planar graph with maximum degree 6 and edge chromatic number 7. We introduce parameters for planar graphs,  based on the degrees of the faces, and study the question whether there are upper bounds for these parameters for planar edge-chromatic critical graphs. Our results provide upper bounds on these parameters for smallest counterexamples to Vizing's conjecture, thus providing a partial characterization of such graphs, if they exist.For $k \leq 5$ the results give insights into the structure of planar edge-chromatic critical graphs.


2018 ◽  
Vol 10 (04) ◽  
pp. 1850044
Author(s):  
Tao Pan ◽  
Lei Sun

It was proved in [Y. Bu and C. Shang, List 2-distance coloring of planar graphs without short cycles, Discrete Math. Algorithm. Appl. 8 (2016) 1650013] that for every planar graph with girth [Formula: see text] and maximum degree [Formula: see text] is list 2-distance [Formula: see text]-colorable. In this paper, we proved that: for every planar graph with [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is list 2-distance [Formula: see text]-colorable.


10.37236/7291 ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 26 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
António Girão ◽  
Gábor Mészáros ◽  
Kamil Popielarz ◽  
Richard Snyder

A graph is path-pairable if for any pairing of its vertices there exist edge-disjoint paths joining the vertices in each pair. We investigate the behaviour of the maximum degree in path-pairable planar graphs. We show that any $n$-vertex path-pairable planar graph must contain a vertex of degree linear in $n$. Our result generalizes to graphs embeddable on a surface of finite genus.  


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