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A relaxation of Steinberg's Conjecture

Combinatorics 2012-08-17 v1

Abstract

A graph is (c1,c2,...,ck)(c_1, c_2, ..., c_k)-colorable if the vertex set can be partitioned into kk sets V1,V2,...,VkV_1,V_2, ..., V_k, such that for every i:1iki: 1\leq i\leq k the subgraph G[Vi]G[V_i] has maximum degree at most cic_i. We show that every planar graph without 4- and 5-cycles is (1,1,0)(1, 1, 0)-colorable and (3,0,0)(3,0,0)-colorable. This is a relaxation of the Steinberg Conjecture that every planar graph without 4- and 5-cycles are properly 3-colorable (i.e., (0,0,0)(0,0,0)-colorable).

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@article{arxiv.1208.3395,
  title  = {A relaxation of Steinberg's Conjecture},
  author = {Owen Hill and Gexin Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1208.3395},
  year   = {2012}
}

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18 pages, 12 figures