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On building 4-critical plane and projective plane multiwheels from odd wheels
We build unbounded classes of plane and projective plane multiwheels that are
4-critical that are received summing odd wheels as edge sums modulo two. These
classes can be considered as ascending from single common graph that can be
received as edge sum modulo two of the octahedron graph O and the minimal wheel
W3. All graphs of these classes belong to 2n-2-edges-class of graphs, among
which are those that quadrangulate projective plane, i.e., graphs from
Gr\"otzsch class, received applying Mycielski's Construction to odd cycle.Comment: 10 page
On the Generalised Colouring Numbers of Graphs that Exclude a Fixed Minor
The generalised colouring numbers and
were introduced by Kierstead and Yang as a generalisation
of the usual colouring number, and have since then found important theoretical
and algorithmic applications. In this paper, we dramatically improve upon the
known upper bounds for generalised colouring numbers for graphs excluding a
fixed minor, from the exponential bounds of Grohe et al. to a linear bound for
the -colouring number and a polynomial bound for the weak
-colouring number . In particular, we show that if
excludes as a minor, for some fixed , then
and
.
In the case of graphs of bounded genus , we improve the bounds to
(and even if
, i.e. if is planar) and
.Comment: 21 pages, to appear in European Journal of Combinatoric
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