English

Planar graphs without cycles of lengths 4 and 5 and close triangles are DP-3-colorable

Combinatorics 2018-09-05 v1

Abstract

Montassier, Raspaud, and Wang (2006) asked to find the smallest positive integers d0d_0 and d1d_1 such that planar graphs without {4,5}\{4,5\}-cycles and dΔd0d^{\Delta}\ge d_0 are 33-choosable and planar graphs without {4,5,6}\{4,5,6\}-cycles and dΔd1d^{\Delta}\ge d_1 are 33-choosable, where dΔd^{\Delta} is the smallest distance between triangles. They showed that 2d042\le d_0\le 4 and d13d_1\le 3. In this paper, we show that the following planar graphs are DP-3-colorable: (1) planar graphs without {4,5}\{4,5\}-cycles and dΔ3d^{\Delta}\ge 3 are DP-33-colorable, and (2) planar graphs without {4,5,6}\{4,5,6\}-cycles and dΔ2d^{\Delta}\ge 2 are DP-33-colorable. DP-coloring is a generalization of list-coloring, thus as a corollary, d03d_0\le 3 and d12d_1\le 2. We actually prove stronger statements that each pre-coloring on some cycles can be extended to the whole graph.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.1809.00925,
  title  = {Planar graphs without cycles of lengths 4 and 5 and close triangles are DP-3-colorable},
  author = {Yuxue Yin and Gexin Yu},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1809.00925},
  year   = {2018}
}

Comments

14 pages. This is an updated version of a submission. In this version, Theorem 1.3 is stronger: instead of $d_0\ge 4$ in the submission, we have $d_0\ge 3$ in this version