A 4-color theorem of the Klein bottle (Q1825877)

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scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4122016
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    A 4-color theorem of the Klein bottle
    scientific article; zbMATH DE number 4122016

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      A 4-color theorem of the Klein bottle (English)
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      1989
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      It is well known that the chromatic number of a graph embeddable in the Klein bottle does not exceed 6. The author proves that if the girth g of such a graph satisfies \(4\leq g\leq 5\) or \(g\geq 6\) then the upper bound on the chromatic number is 4 or 3, respectively. These bounds are sharp for all g except, possibly, \(g=5.\)
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      graph embeddings
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      Klein bottle
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      chromatic number
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