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Nonrepetitive colourings of graphs excluding a fixed immersion or topological minor

Combinatorics 2019-07-15 v3

Abstract

We prove that graphs excluding a fixed immersion have bounded nonrepetitive chromatic number. More generally, we prove that if HH is a fixed planar graph that has a planar embedding with all the vertices with degree at least 4 on a single face, then graphs excluding HH as a topological minor have bounded nonrepetitive chromatic number. This is the largest class of graphs known to have bounded nonrepetitive chromatic number.

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@article{arxiv.1701.07425,
  title  = {Nonrepetitive colourings of graphs excluding a fixed immersion or topological minor},
  author = {Paul Wollan and David R. Wood},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1701.07425},
  year   = {2019}
}