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A note on non-repetitive colourings of planar graphs

Combinatorics 2007-05-23 v1

Abstract

Alon et al. introduced the concept of non-repetitive colourings of graphs. Here we address some questions regarding non-repetitive colourings of planar graphs. Specifically, we show that the faces of any outerplanar map can be non-repetitively coloured using at most five colours. We also give some lower bounds for the number of colours required to non-repetitively colour the vertices of both outerplanar and planar graphs.

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@article{arxiv.math/0307365,
  title  = {A note on non-repetitive colourings of planar graphs},
  author = {Narad Rampersad},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0307365},
  year   = {2007}
}

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4 pages, 2 figures