Revisiting a Nice Cycle Lemma and its Consequences

Authors Michael O. Albertson, Joan P. Hutchinson, R. B. Richter

Publication date 22 February 2016

Planar graphs; geometric and topological aspects of graph theory (05C10) Coloring of graphs and hypergraphs (05C15)

Abstract: We correct some errors and omissions primarily in a paper [Albertson&Hutchinson2004], discovered by R.B. Richter, and also some in a proof of [Thomassen1993] and of [Yu1997]. We give a short proof of Thomassen's theorem that every triangulation of a surface with all noncontractible cycles sufficiently long can be 5-colored; part of the shortness is due to the use of the Four Color Theorem, which is not used in Thomassen's original proof.

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