Plane Graphs with Maximum Degree 5 Are 11-Linear-Colorable |
Received:June 21, 2011 Revised:December 19, 2011 |
Key Words:
planar graph linear coloring maximum degree.
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Fund Project:Supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No.11071223), the Natural Science Foundation of Zhejiang Province (Grant No.Z6090150) and Research Project of Zhejiang Educational Committee (Grant No.Y201121311). |
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Abstract: |
A linear coloring of a graph $G$ is a proper vertex coloring such that the graph induced by the vertices of any two color classes is the union of vertex-disjoint paths. The linear chromatic number lc$(G)$ of $G$ is the smallest number of colors in a linear coloring of $G$. In this paper, we prove that every planar graph $G$ with maximum degree $5$ is 11-linear-colorable. |
Citation: |
DOI:10.3770/j.issn:2095-2651.2012.06.002 |
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