3-coloring triangle-free planar graphs with a precolored 9-cycle

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2018-02-01
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Choi, Ilkyoo
Ekstein, Jan
Holub, Premysl
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Given a triangle-free planar graph G and a 9-cycle C in G, we characterize situations where a 3-coloring of C does not extend to a proper 3-coloring of G. This extends previous results when C is a cycle of length at most 8.

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This is a manuscript of an article published as Choi, Ilkyoo, Jan Ekstein, Přemysl Holub, and Bernard Lidický. "3-coloring triangle-free planar graphs with a precolored 9-cycle." 68 European Journal of Combinatorics (2018): 38-65. doi: 10.1016/j.ejc.2017.07.010. Posted with permission.

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