scholarly journals List edge and list total colorings of planar graphs without non-induced 7-cycles

2013 ◽  
Vol Vol. 15 no. 1 (Graph and Algorithms) ◽  
Author(s):  
Aijun Dong ◽  
Guizhen Liu ◽  
Guojun Li
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Total Chromatic Number ◽  
International Audience

Graphs and Algorithms International audience Giving a planar graph G, let χ'l(G) and χ''l(G) denote the list edge chromatic number and list total chromatic number of G respectively. It is proved that if G is a planar graph without non-induced 7-cycles, then χ'l(G)≤Δ(G)+1 and χ''l(G)≤Δ(G)+2 where Δ(G)≥7.

scholarly journals Total Colorings of $F_5$-Free Planar Graphs with Maximum Degree 8

10.37236/3303 ◽  
2014 ◽  
Vol 21 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Jian Chang ◽  
Jian-Liang Wu ◽  
Hui-Juan Wang ◽  
Zhan-Hai Guo
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Total Chromatic Number ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Fan Graph

The total chromatic number of a graph $G$, denoted by $\chi′′(G)$, is the minimum number of colors needed to color the vertices and edges of $G$ such that no two adjacent or incident elements get the same color. It is known that if a planar graph $G$ has maximum degree $\Delta ≥ 9$, then $\chi′′(G) = \Delta + 1$. The join $K_1 \vee P_n$ of $K_1$ and $P_n$ is called a fan graph $F_n$. In this paper, we prove that if $G$ is a $F_5$-free planar graph with maximum degree 8, then $\chi′′(G) = 9$.

The structure of plane graphs with independent crossings and its applications to coloring problems

2013 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Xin Zhang ◽  
Guizhen Liu
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Plane Graph ◽  
Plane Graphs ◽  
Total Chromatic Number ◽  
Linear Arboricity

AbstractIf a graph G has a drawing in the plane in such a way that every two crossings are independent, then we call G a plane graph with independent crossings or IC-planar graph for short. In this paper, the structure of IC-planar graphs with minimum degree at least two or three is studied. By applying their structural results, we prove that the edge chromatic number of G is Δ if Δ ≥ 8, the list edge (resp. list total) chromatic number of G is Δ (resp. Δ + 1) if Δ ≥ 14 and the linear arboricity of G is ℈Δ/2⌊ if Δ ≥ 17, where G is an IC-planar graph and Δ is the maximum degree of G.

r-Hued coloring of planar graphs without short cycles

2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (03) ◽  
pp. 2050034
Author(s):  
Yuehua Bu ◽  
Xiaofang Wang
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Minimum Integer

A [Formula: see text]-hued coloring of a graph [Formula: see text] is a proper [Formula: see text]-coloring [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] for any vertex [Formula: see text]. The [Formula: see text]-hued chromatic number of [Formula: see text], written [Formula: see text], is the minimum integer [Formula: see text] such that [Formula: see text] has a [Formula: see text]-hued coloring. In this paper, we show that [Formula: see text] if [Formula: see text] and [Formula: see text] is a planar graph without [Formula: see text]-cycles or if [Formula: see text] is a planar graph without [Formula: see text]-cycles and no [Formula: see text]-cycle is intersect with [Formula: see text]-cycles, [Formula: see text], then [Formula: see text], where [Formula: see text].

scholarly journals Strong Oriented Chromatic Number of Planar Graphs without Short Cycles

2008 ◽  
Vol Vol. 10 no. 1 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mickael Montassier ◽  
Pascal Ochem ◽  
Alexandre Pinlou
Keyword(s):  
Abelian Group ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Oriented Graph ◽  
Minimal Order ◽  
Outerplanar Graphs ◽  
International Audience

International audience Let M be an additive abelian group. An M-strong-oriented coloring of an oriented graph G is a mapping f from V(G) to M such that f(u) <> j(v) whenever uv is an arc in G and f(v)−f(u) <> −(f(t)−f(z)) whenever uv and zt are two arcs in G. The strong oriented chromatic number of an oriented graph is the minimal order of a group M such that G has an M-strong-oriented coloring. This notion was introduced by Nesetril and Raspaud [Ann. Inst. Fourier, 49(3):1037-1056, 1999]. We prove that the strong oriented chromatic number of oriented planar graphs without cycles of lengths 4 to 12 (resp. 4 or 6) is at most 7 (resp. 19). Moreover, for all i ≥ 4, we construct outerplanar graphs without cycles of lengths 4 to i whose oriented chromatic number is 7.

scholarly journals The structure and the list 3-dynamic coloring of outer-1-planar graphs

2021 ◽  
Vol vol. 23, no. 3 (Graph Theory) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yan Li ◽  
Xin Zhang
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Local Structure ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Minimum Degree ◽  
Outer Region ◽  
The Other ◽  
Structural Theorem ◽  
Other Hand

An outer-1-planar graph is a graph admitting a drawing in the plane so that all vertices appear in the outer region of the drawing and every edge crosses at most one other edge. This paper establishes the local structure of outer-1-planar graphs by proving that each outer-1-planar graph contains one of the seventeen fixed configurations, and the list of those configurations is minimal in the sense that for each fixed configuration there exist outer-1-planar graphs containing this configuration that do not contain any of another sixteen configurations. There are two interesting applications of this structural theorem. First of all, we conclude that every (resp. maximal) outer-1-planar graph of minimum degree at least 2 has an edge with the sum of the degrees of its two end-vertices being at most 9 (resp. 7), and this upper bound is sharp. On the other hand, we show that the list 3-dynamic chromatic number of every outer-1-planar graph is at most 6, and this upper bound is best possible.

On total chromatic number of planar graphs without 4-cycles

2007 ◽  
Vol 50 (1) ◽  
pp. 81-86 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ying-qian Wang ◽  
Min-le Shangguan ◽  
Qiao Li
Keyword(s):  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Total Chromatic Number

scholarly journals Planar graphs have bounded nonrepetitive chromatic number

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Vida Dujmović ◽  
Louis Esperet ◽  
Gwenaël Joret ◽  
Bartosz Walczak ◽  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Probabilistic Method ◽  
Color Pattern ◽  
Binary Representation ◽  
Strong Product ◽  
Minimum Number ◽  
Shaped Graph

The following seemingly simple question with surprisingly many connections to various problems in computer science and mathematics can be traced back to the beginning of the 20th century to the work of [Axel Thue](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axel_Thue): How many colors are needed to color the positive integers in a way such that no two consecutive segments of the same length have the same color pattern? Clearly, at least three colors are needed: if there was such a coloring with two colors, then any two consecutive integers would have different colors (otherwise, we would get two consecutive segments of length one with the same color pattern) and so the colors would have to alternate, i.e., any two consecutive segments of length two would have the same color pattern. Suprisingly, three colors suffice. The coloring can be constructed as follows. We first define a sequence of 0s and 1s recursively as follows: we start with 0 only and in each step we take the already constructed sequence, flip the 0s and 1s in it and append the resulting sequence at the end. In this way, we sequentially obtain the sequences 0, 01, 0110, 01101001, etc., which are all extensions of each other. The limiting infinite sequence is known as the [Thue-Morse sequence](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thue%E2%80%93Morse_sequence). Another view of the sequence is that the $i$-th element is the parity of the number of 1s in the binary representation of $i-1$, i.e., it is one if the number is odd and zero if it is even. The coloring of integers is obtained by coloring an integer $i$ by the difference of the $(i+1)$-th and $i$-th entries in the Thue-Morse sequence, i.e., the sequence of colors will be 1, 0, -1, 1, -1, 0, 1, 0, etc. One of the properties of the Thue-Morse sequence is that it does not containing two overlapping squares, i.e., there is no sequence X such that 0X0X0 or 1X1X1 would be a subsequence of the Thue-Morse sequence. This implies that the coloring of integers that we have constructed has no two consecutive segments with the same color pattern. The article deals with a generalization of this notion to graphs. The _nonrepetitive chromatic number_ of a graph $G$ is the minimum number of colors required to color the vertices of $G$ in such way that no path with an even number of vertices is comprised of two paths with the same color pattern. The construction presented above yields that the nonrepetitive chromatic number of every path with at least four vertices is three. The article answers in the positive the following question of Alon, Grytczuk, Hałuszczak and Riordan from 2002: Is the nonrepetitive chromatic number of planar graphs bounded? They show that the nonrepetitive chromatic number of every planar graph is at most 768 and provide generalizations to graphs embeddable to surfaces of higher genera and more generally to classes of graphs excluding a (topological) minor. Before their work, the best upper bound on the nonrepetitive chromatic number of planar graphs was logarithmic in their number of vertices, in addition to a universal upper bound quadratic in the maximum degree of a graph obtained using probabilistic method. The key ingredient for the argument presented in the article is the recent powerful result by Dujmović, Joret, Micek, Morin, Ueckerdt and Wood asserting that every planar graph is a subgraph of the strong product of a path and a graph of bounded tree-width (tree-shaped graph).

scholarly journals The Size of Edge-critical Uniquely 3-Colorable Planar Graphs

10.37236/3228 ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 20 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Naoki Matsumoto
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Upper Bound ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Infinite Family ◽  
The Other ◽  
Other Hand ◽  
Colorable Graph

A graph $G$ is uniquely $k$-colorable if the chromatic number of $G$ is $k$ and $G$ has only one $k$-coloring up to permutation of the colors. A uniquely $k$-colorable graph $G$ is edge-critical if $G-e$ is not a uniquely $k$-colorable graph for any edge $e\in E(G)$. In this paper, we prove that if $G$ is an edge-critical uniquely $3$-colorable planar graph, then $|E(G)|\leq \frac{8}{3}|V(G)|-\frac{17}{3}$. On the other hand, there exists an infinite family of edge-critical uniquely 3-colorable planar graphs with $n$ vertices and $\frac{9}{4}n-6$ edges. Our result gives a first non-trivial upper bound for $|E(G)|$.

scholarly journals Face-Degree Bounds for Planar Critical Graphs

10.37236/5895 ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 23 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Ligang Jin ◽  
Yingli Kang ◽  
Eckhard Steffen
Keyword(s):  
Planar Graph ◽  
Chromatic Number ◽  
Planar Graphs ◽  
Maximum Degree ◽  
Upper Bounds ◽  
Partial Characterization ◽  
Critical Graphs ◽  
Degree Bounds

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.

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