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A relaxation of the strong Bordeaux Conjecture

Combinatorics 2015-09-01 v1

Abstract

Let c1,c2,,ckc_1, c_2, \cdots, c_k be kk non-negative integers. A graph GG is (c1,c2,,ck)(c_1, c_2, \cdots, c_k)-colorable if the vertex set can be partitioned into kk sets V1,V2,,VkV_1,V_2, \ldots, V_k, such that the subgraph G[Vi]G[V_i], induced by ViV_i, has maximum degree at most cic_i for i=1,2,,ki=1, 2, \ldots, k. Let F\mathcal{F} denote the family of plane graphs with neither adjacent 3-cycles nor 55-cycle. Borodin and Raspaud (2003) conjectured that each graph in F\mathcal{F} is (0,0,0)(0,0,0)-colorable. In this paper, we prove that each graph in F\mathcal{F} is (1,1,0)(1, 1, 0)-colorable, which improves the results by Xu (2009) and Liu-Li-Yu (2014+).

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@article{arxiv.1508.07890,
  title  = {A relaxation of the strong Bordeaux Conjecture},
  author = {Ziwen Huang and Xiangwen Li and Gexin Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1508.07890},
  year   = {2015}
}

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14 pages