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On minimal triangle-free planar graphs with prescribed 1-defective chromatic number

Combinatorics 2015-01-20 v1

Abstract

A graph is (m,k)-colourable if its vertices can be coloured with m colours such that the maximum degree of the subgraph induced on the set of all vertices receiving the same colour is at most k. The k-defective chromatic number χk(G)\chi_k(G) is the least positive integer mm for which graph G is (m,k)-colourable. Let f(m,k;tfp) be the smallest order of a triangle-free planar graph such that χk(G)\chi_k(G)=m. In this paper we show that f(3,1;tfp)=11.

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@article{arxiv.1501.04387,
  title  = {On minimal triangle-free planar graphs with prescribed 1-defective chromatic number},
  author = {Nirmala Achuthan and N. R. Achuthan and G. Keady},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1501.04387},
  year   = {2015}
}

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12pages, 5figures