Volume 16, No 6, 2009, P. 3-11

UDC 519.172
O. V. Borodin
Acyclic 4-coloring of plane graphs without cycles of length 4 and 6

Abstract:
Every planar graph is known to be acyclically 5-colorable (Borodin, 1976), which bound is precise. Some sufficient conditions are also obtained for a planar graph to be acyclically 4-colorable. In particular, the acyclic 4-colorability was proved for the following planar graphs: without 3- and 4-cycles (Borodin, Kostochka and Woodall, 1999), without 4-, 5- and 6-cycles, (Montassier, Raspaud and Wang, 2006), without 4-, 6- and 7-cycles, and without 4-, 6- and 8-cycles (Chen, Raspaud, and Wang, 2009). In this paper it is proved that each planar graph without 4- and 6-cycles is acyclically 4-colorable.
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Keywords: planar graph, acyclically coloring, acyclic choosability.

Borodin Oleg Veniaminovich ¹
1. S. L. Sobolev Institute of Mathematics, SB RAS,
4 Acad. Koptyug Ave., 630090 Novosibirsk, Russia
e-mail: brdnoleg@math.nsc.ru