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Every planar graph without adjacent short cycles is 3-colorable

Combinatorics 2010-04-06 v1

Abstract

Two cycles are {\em adjacent} if they have an edge in common. Suppose that GG is a planar graph, for any two adjacent cycles C1C_{1} and C2C_{2}, we have C1+C211|C_{1}| + |C_{2}| \geq 11, in particular, when C1=5|C_{1}| = 5, C27|C_{2}| \geq 7. We show that the graph GG is 3-colorable.

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@article{arxiv.1004.0582,
  title  = {Every planar graph without adjacent short cycles is 3-colorable},
  author = {Tao Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1004.0582},
  year   = {2010}
}

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14 pages, 16 figures

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