The star-chromatic number of a graph, a parameter introduced by Vince, is a natural generalization of the chromatic number of a graph. Here we construct planar graphs with star-chromatic number r, where r is any rational number between 2 and 3, partially answering a question of Vince.
Star chromatic numbers of some planar graphs
โ Scribed by Gao, Guogang; Wang, Yiju; Zhou, Huishan
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 1998
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 173 KB
- Volume
- 27
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-9024
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โฆ Synopsis
The concept of the star chromatic number of a graph was introduced by Vince (A. Vince, Star chromatic number, J. Graph Theory 12 (1988), 551--559), which is a natural generalization of the chromatic number of a graph. This paper calculates the star chromatic numbers of three infinite families of planar graphs. More precisely, the first family of planar graphs has star chromatic numbers consisting of two alternating infinite decreasing sequences between 3 and 4; the second family of planar graphs has star chromatic numbers forming an infinite decreasing sequence between 3 and 4; and the third family of planar graphs has star chromatic number 7/2.
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