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Steinberg's Conjecture is false

Combinatorics 2016-04-20 v2

Abstract

Steinberg conjectured in 1976 that every planar graph with no cycles of length four or five is 3-colorable. We disprove this conjecture.

Cite

@article{arxiv.1604.05108,
  title  = {Steinberg's Conjecture is false},
  author = {Vincent Cohen-Addad and Michael Hebdige and Daniel Kral and Zhentao Li and Esteban Salgado},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1604.05108},
  year   = {2016}
}

Comments

Several typos fixed

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