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3-coloring triangle-free planar graphs with a precolored 8-cycle

Combinatorics 2016-12-16 v1 Discrete Mathematics

Abstract

Let G be a planar triangle-free graph and let C be a cycle in G of length at most 8. We characterize all situations where a 3-coloring of C does not extend to a proper 3-coloring of the whole graph.

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@article{arxiv.1305.2467,
  title  = {3-coloring triangle-free planar graphs with a precolored 8-cycle},
  author = {Zdeněk Dvořák and Bernard Lidický},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1305.2467},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

20 pages, 5 figures

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