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An Introduction to the Discharging Method

History and Overview 2020-04-16 v3 Combinatorics

Abstract

In this survey essay, I explore the application of the discharging method in graph theory, including the selection of charging rules and discharging rules, and the general characteristics of the discharging method. As examples, I will prove some lemmas using the discharging method and provide a high-level description of the proof of the four color theorem.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1711.03004,
  title  = {An Introduction to the Discharging Method},
  author = {Haoze Wu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1711.03004},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

This work is a course project and is neither well-formatted nor making much contribution

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