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Montassier, Raspaud, and Wang (2006) asked to find the smallest positive integers $d_0$ and $d_1$ such that planar graphs without $\{4,5\}$-cycles and $d^{\Delta}\ge d_0$ are $3$-choosable and planar graphs without $\{4,5,6\}$-cycles and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-09-05 Yuxue Yin , Gexin Yu

A graph $G$ is equitably $k$-choosable if, for any given $k$-uniform list assignment $L$, $G$ is $L$-colorable and each color appears on at most $\lceil\frac{|V(G)|}{k}\rceil$ vertices. A graph is equitably $k$-colorable if the vertex set…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2023-06-22 Aijun Dong , Jianliang Wu

Let $c$ be an edge-colouring of a graph $G$ such that for every vertex $v$ there are at least $d \ge 2$ different colours on edges incident to $v$. We prove that $G$ contains a properly coloured path of length 2d or a properly coloured…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2013-06-21 Allan Lo

We prove several results on coloring squares of planar graphs without 4-cycles. First, we show that if $G$ is such a graph, then $G^2$ is $(\Delta(G)+72)$-degenerate. This implies an upper bound of $\Delta(G)+73$ on the chromatic number of…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2021-10-06 Ilkyoo Choi , Daniel W. Cranston , Théo Pierron

We show that the size of a 4-critical graph of girth at least five is bounded by a linear function of its genus. This strengthens the previous bound on the size of such graphs given by Thomassen. It also serves as the basic case for the…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2019-04-17 Zdeněk Dvořák , Daniel Kráľ , Robin Thomas

We prove that every triangle-free graph of tree-width t has chromatic number at most ceil((t + 3)/2), and demonstrate that this bound is tight. The argument also establishes a connection between coloring graphs of tree-width t and on-line…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2017-06-12 Zdeněk Dvořák , Ken-ichi Kawarabayashi

it is shown that each triangle-free 1-planar graph with maximum degree $\Delta\geq7$ can be $\Delta$-colorable by Discharging Method.

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2010-12-30 Xin Zhang , Guizhen Liu , Jian-Liang Wu

We prove that every $n$-vertex planar graph $G$ with no triangle sharing an edge with a 4-cycle has independence ratio $n/\alpha(G) \leq 4 - \varepsilon$ for $\varepsilon = 1/30$. This result implies that the same bound holds for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2026-03-18 Tom Kelly , Sid Kolichala , Caleb McFarland , Jatong Su

An acyclic edge coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper edge coloring such that every cycle is colored with at least three colors. The acyclic chromatic index $\chiup_{a}'(G)$ of a graph $G$ is the least number of colors in an acyclic edge…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-02-20 Tao Wang , Yaqiong Zhang

An edge coloring of a graph $G$ is to color all the edges in the graph such that adjacent edges receive different colors. It is acyclic if each cycle in the graph receives at least three colors. Fiam{\v{c}}ik (1978) and Alon, Sudakov and…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2023-06-29 Qiaojun Shu , Guohui Lin

A wheel is a graph consisting of an induced cycle of length at least four and a single additional vertex with at least three neighbours on the cycle. We prove that no Burling graph contains an induced wheel. Burling graphs are triangle-free…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-02-18 James Davies

The concept of DP-coloring of a graph is a generalization of list coloring introduced by Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle in 2015. Multiple DP-coloring of graphs, as a generalization of multiple list coloring, was first studied by Bernshteyn,…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2022-01-31 Huan Zhou , Xuding Zhu

The $3$-colorability problem is a well-known NP-complete problem and it remains NP-complete for $bull$-free graphs, where a $bull$ is the graph consisting of a $K_3$ with two pendant edges attached to two of its vertices. In this paper, for…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-09-03 Nadzieja Hodur , Monika Pilśniak , Magdalena Prorok , Ingo Schiermeyer

We introduce a new approach and prove that the maximum number of triangles in a $C_5$-free graph on $n$ vertices is at most $$(1 + o(1)) \frac{1}{3 \sqrt 2} n^{3/2}.$$ We also show a connection to $r$-uniform hypergraphs without (Berge)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2018-11-30 Beka Ergemlidze , Abhishek Methuku

We provide a certifying algorithm for the problem of deciding whether a P5- free graph is 3-colorable by showing there are exactly six finite graphs that are P5-free and not 3-colorable and minimal with respect to this property.

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2009-07-22 Daniel Bruce , Chinh T. Hoang , Joe Sawada

It was conjectured by Steinberg in 1976 that planar graphs without cycles of length 4 or 5 are 3-colorable. This conjecture attracted a substantial amount of attention and was finally refuted by Cohen-Addad, Hebdige, Kr\'{a}l', Li and…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-11-18 Xiaoyan Xu , Xuding Zhu

For planar graphs, we consider the problems of \emph{list edge coloring} and \emph{list total coloring}. Edge coloring is the problem of coloring the edges while ensuring that two edges that are adjacent receive different colors. Total…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2014-05-15 Marthe Bonamy , Benjamin Lévêque , Alexandre Pinlou

Weak degeneracy of a graph is a variation of degeneracy that has a close relationship to many graph coloring parameters. In this article, we prove that planar graphs with distance of $3$-cycles at least 2 and no cycles of lengths $5, 6, 7$…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2025-02-26 Tao Wang , Ya-Nan Wang , Xiaojing Yang

This paper investigates an extremely classic NP-complete problem: How to determine if a graph G, where each vertex has a degree of at most 4, can be 3-colorable(The research in this paper focuses on graphs G that satisfy the condition where…

Computational Complexity · Computer Science 2024-05-21 Zikang Deng

We study the number of edges, $e(G)$, in triangle-free graphs with a prescribed number of vertices, $n(G)$, independence number, $\alpha(G)$, and number of cycles of length four, $\operatorname{N}(C_4;G)$. We in particular show that $$3e(G)…

Combinatorics · Mathematics 2016-12-06 Oliver Krüger
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