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Coloring plane graphs with independent crossings

Combinatorics 2008-11-18 v1

Abstract

We show that every plane graph with maximum face size four whose all faces of size four are vertex-disjoint is cyclically 5-colorable. This answers a question of Albertson whether graphs drawn in the plane with all crossings independent are 5-colorable.

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@article{arxiv.0811.2702,
  title  = {Coloring plane graphs with independent crossings},
  author = {Daniel Král' and Ladislav Stacho},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:0811.2702},
  year   = {2008}
}
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