Homomorphisms of triangle-free graphs without a K5-minor
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چکیده
In the course of extending Grötzsch’s theorem, we prove that every triangle-free graph without a K5-minor is 3-colorable. It has been recently proved that every triangle-free planar graph admits a homomorphism to the Clebsch graph. We also extend this result to the class of triangle-free graphs without a K5-minor. This is related to some conjectures which generalize the Four-Color Theorem. While we show that our results cannot be extended directly, we conjecture that every K6minor-free graph of girth at least 5 is 3-colorable.
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ورودعنوان ژورنال:
- Discrete Mathematics
دوره 309 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 2009