Title
Note on 3-Choosability of Planar Graphs with Maximum Degree 4.
Abstract
Deciding whether a planar graph (even of maximum degree 4) is 3-colorable is NP-complete. Determining subclasses of planar graphs being 3-colorable has a long history, but since Grötzsch’s result that triangle-free planar graphs are such, most of the effort was focused to solving Havel’s and Steinberg’s conjectures. In this paper, we prove that every planar graph obtained as a subgraph of the medial graph of any bipartite plane graph is 3-choosable. These graphs are allowed to have close triangles (even incident), and have no short cycles forbidden, hence representing an entirely different class than the graphs inferred by the above mentioned conjectures.
Year
DOI
Venue
2019
10.1016/j.disc.2019.06.021
Discrete Mathematics
Keywords
Field
DocType
Medial graph,Plane graph,3-colorability,3-choosability,Alon–Tarsi theorem
Discrete mathematics,Graph,Combinatorics,Bipartite graph,Degree (graph theory),Medial graph,Mathematics,Planar graph
Journal
Volume
Issue
ISSN
342
11
0012-365X
Citations 
PageRank 
References 
0
0.34
0
Authors
4
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
François Dross130.83
Borut Luzar24210.86
M. Maceková3122.70
Roman Soták412824.06