Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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4650690 | Discrete Mathematics | 2008 | 10 Pages |
Abstract
A triangulation is said to be even if each vertex has even degree. It is known that every even triangulation on any orientable surface with sufficiently large representativity is 4-colorable [J. Hutchinson, B. Richter, P. Seymour, Colouring Eulerian triangulations, J. Combin. Theory, Ser. B 84 (2002) 225–239], but all graphs on any surface with large representativity are 5-colorable [C. Thomassen, Five-coloring maps on surfaces, J. Combin Theory Ser. B 59 (1993) 89–105]. In this paper, we shall characterize 5-chromatic even triangulations with large representativity, which appear only on nonorientable surfaces.
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Authors
Atsuhiro Nakamoto,