Three-coloring graphs embedded on surfaces with all faces even-sided (Q1898734)
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Three-coloring graphs embedded on surfaces with all faces even-sided (English)
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20 September 1995
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Every graph embedded on a surface of positive genus with every face bounded by an even number of edges can be 3-colored provided all noncontractible cycles in the graph are sufficiently long. The bound of three colors is the smallest possible for this type of result.
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plane
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planar graphs
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Heawood's bound
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embedding
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torus
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toroidal graph
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graph embedded on a surface
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positive genus
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noncontractible cycles
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bound
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three colors
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