3-coloring Triangle-free Planar Graphs with a Precolored 8-cycle

نویسندگان

  • Zdenek Dvorak
  • Bernard Lidický
چکیده

Let G be a planar triangle-free graph and let C be a cycle in G of length at most 8. We characterize all situations where a 3-coloring of C does not extend to a proper 3-coloring of the whole graph.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • Journal of Graph Theory

دوره 80  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2015