This paper discusses a variation of the game chromatic number of a graph: the game coloring number. This parameter provides an upper bound for the game chromatic number of a graph. We show that the game coloring number of a planar graph is at most 19. This implies that the game chromatic number of a
The Two-Coloring Number and Degenerate Colorings of Planar Graphs
✍ Scribed by Kierstead, Hal; Mohar, Bojan; Špacapan, Simon; Yang, Daqing; Zhu, Xuding
- Book ID
- 118197703
- Publisher
- Society for Industrial and Applied Mathematics
- Year
- 2009
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 284 KB
- Volume
- 23
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0895-4801
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