Further Extensions of the Gr\"{o}tzsch Theorem

The Gr\"{o}tzsch Theorem states that every triangle-free planar graph admits a proper $3$-coloring. Among many of its generalizations, the one of Gr\"{u}nbaum and Aksenov, giving $3$-colorability of planar graphs with at most three triangles, is perhaps the most known. A lot of attention was also given to extending $3$-colorings of subgraphs to the whole graph. In this paper, we consider $3$-colorings of planar graphs with at most one triangle. Particularly, we show that precoloring of any two non-adjacent vertices and precoloring of a face of length at most $4$ can be extended to a $3$-coloring of the graph. Additionally, we show that for every vertex of degree at most $3$, a precoloring of its neighborhood with the same color extends to a $3$-coloring of the graph. The latter result implies an affirmative answer to a conjecture on adynamic coloring. All the presented results are tight

Planar graph coloring avoiding monochromatic subgraphs: trees and paths make things difficult

We consider the problem of coloring a planar graph with the minimum number of colors such that each color class avoids one or more forbidden graphs as subgraphs. We perform a detailed study of the computational complexity of this problem

Three-coloring triangle-free graphs on surfaces V. Coloring planar graphs with distant anomalies

We settle a problem of Havel by showing that there exists an absolute constant d such that if G is a planar graph in which every two distinct triangles are at distance at least d, then G is 3-colorable. In fact, we prove a more general theorem. Let G be a planar graph, and let H be a set of connected subgraphs of G, each of bounded size, such that every two distinct members of H are at least a specified distance apart and all triangles of G are contained in \bigcup{H}. We give a sufficient condition for the existence of a 3-coloring phi of G such that for every B\in H, the restriction of phi to B is constrained in a specified way.Comment: 26 pages, no figures. Updated presentatio