21 research outputs found
Minimal counterexamples and discharging method
Recently, the author found that there is a common mistake in some papers by
using minimal counterexample and discharging method. We first discuss how the
mistake is generated, and give a method to fix the mistake. As an illustration,
we consider total coloring of planar or toroidal graphs, and show that: if
is a planar or toroidal graph with maximum degree at most , where
, then the total chromatic number is at most .Comment: 8 pages. Preliminary version, comments are welcom
The Decomposability of Toroidal Graphs without Adjacent Triangles or Short Cycles
A graph G has a (Formula presented.) -decomposition if there is a pair (Formula presented.) such that F is a subgraph of G and D is an acyclic orientation of (Formula presented.), where the maximum degree of F is no more than h and the maximum out-degree of D is no more than d. This paper proves that toroidal graphs having no adjacent triangles are (Formula presented.) -decomposable, and for (Formula presented.), toroidal graphs without i- and j-cycles are (Formula presented.) -decomposable. As consequences of these results, toroidal graphs without adjacent triangles are 1-defective DP-4-colorable, and toroidal graphs without i- and j-cycles are 1-defective DP-3-colorable for (Formula presented.).</p
Defective and Clustered Graph Colouring
Consider the following two ways to colour the vertices of a graph where the
requirement that adjacent vertices get distinct colours is relaxed. A colouring
has "defect" if each monochromatic component has maximum degree at most
. A colouring has "clustering" if each monochromatic component has at
most vertices. This paper surveys research on these types of colourings,
where the first priority is to minimise the number of colours, with small
defect or small clustering as a secondary goal. List colouring variants are
also considered. The following graph classes are studied: outerplanar graphs,
planar graphs, graphs embeddable in surfaces, graphs with given maximum degree,
graphs with given maximum average degree, graphs excluding a given subgraph,
graphs with linear crossing number, linklessly or knotlessly embeddable graphs,
graphs with given Colin de Verdi\`ere parameter, graphs with given
circumference, graphs excluding a fixed graph as an immersion, graphs with
given thickness, graphs with given stack- or queue-number, graphs excluding
as a minor, graphs excluding as a minor, and graphs excluding
an arbitrary graph as a minor. Several open problems are discussed.Comment: This is a preliminary version of a dynamic survey to be published in
the Electronic Journal of Combinatoric
DP-3-coloring of planar graphs without certain cycles
DP-coloring is a generalization of list coloring, which was introduced by
Dvo\v{r}\'{a}k and Postle [J. Combin. Theory Ser. B 129 (2018) 38--54]. Zhang
[Inform. Process. Lett. 113 (9) (2013) 354--356] showed that every planar graph
with neither adjacent triangles nor 5-, 6-, 9-cycles is 3-choosable. Liu et al.
[Discrete Math. 342 (2019) 178--189] showed that every planar graph without 4-,
5-, 6- and 9-cycles is DP-3-colorable. In this paper, we show that every planar
graph with neither adjacent triangles nor 5-, 6-, 9-cycles is DP-3-colorable,
which generalizes these results. Yu et al. gave three Bordeaux-type results by
showing that (i) every planar graph with the distance of triangles at least
three and no 4-, 5-cycles is DP-3-colorable; (ii) every planar graph with the
distance of triangles at least two and no 4-, 5-, 6-cycles is DP-3-colorable;
(iii) every planar graph with the distance of triangles at least two and no 5-,
6-, 7-cycles is DP-3-colorable. We also give two Bordeaux-type results in the
last section: (i) every plane graph with neither 5-, 6-, 8-cycles nor triangles
at distance less than two is DP-3-colorable; (ii) every plane graph with
neither 4-, 5-, 7-cycles nor triangles at distance less than two is
DP-3-colorable.Comment: 16 pages, 4 figure