Title

On improving the edge-face coloring theorem

Authors

Authors

D. P. Sanders;Y. Zhao

Abbreviated Journal Title

Graphs Comb.

Keywords

PLANE GRAPHS; Mathematics

Abstract

In a previous paper, the authors proved a conjecture of Melnikov that the edges and faces of a plane graph of maximum degree Delta may be simultaneously colored with at most Delta + 3 colors. In this paper, the theorem is reproved with a more direct technique, which also yields improvements. For Delta less than or equal to 5, the theorem is extended to multigraphs. For Delta greater than or equal to 7, it is shown that Delta + 2 colors suffice.

Journal Title

Graphs and Combinatorics

Volume

17

Issue/Number

2

Publication Date

1-1-2001

Document Type

Article

Language

English

First Page

329

Last Page

341

WOS Identifier

WOS:000170097600015

ISSN

0911-0119

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