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Diskretn. Anal. Issled. Oper., 2010 Volume 17, Issue 2, Pages 20–38 (Mi da603)

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Acyclic 4-colorability of planar graphs without 4- and 5-cycles

O. V. Borodinab

a S. L. Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, SB RAS, Novosibirsk, Russia
b Novosibirsk State University, Novosibirsk, Russia

Abstract: Every planar graph is known to be acyclically 5-colorable (Borodin, 1976). Some sufficient conditions are also obtained for a planar graph to be acyclically 4- and 3-colorable. In particular, the acyclic 4-colorability was proved for the following planar graphs: without 3-, and 4-cycles (Borodin, Kostochka, Woodall, 1999), without 4-, 5- and 6-cycles, without 4-, 5- and 7-cycles, and with neither 4- or 5-cycles nor intersecting 3-cycles (Montassier, Raspaud and Wang, 2006), and also without cycles of length 4, 5 and 8 (Chen, Raspaud, 2009).
In this paper it is proved that each planar graph without 4-cycles and 5-cycles is acyclically 4-colorable. Bibl. 23.

Keywords: planar graphs, acyclic coloring, forbidden cycles.

UDC: 519.17

Received: 17.06.2009
Revised: 11.02.2010


 English version:
Journal of Applied and Industrial Mathematics, 2011, 5:1, 31–43

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