Kempe Equivalence Classes of Cubic Graphs Embedded on the Projective Plane
Kempe Equivalence Classes of Cubic Graphs Embedded on the Projective Plane
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DOI:
10.1007/s00493-021-4330-2
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发表时间:
2022-05
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1.1
通讯作者:
K. Ozeki
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作者:
K. Ozeki
A Kempe switch of a 3-edge-coloring of a cubic graphGon a bicolored cycleCswaps the colors onCand gives rise to a new 3-edge-coloring ofG. Two 3-edge-colorings ofGare Kempe equivalent if they can be obtained from each other by a sequence of Kempe switches. Fisk proved that any two 3-edge-colorings in a cubic bipartite planar graph are Kempe equivalent. In this paper, we obtain an analog of this theorem and prove that all 3-edge-colorings of a cubic bipartite projective-planar graphGare pairwise Kempe equivalent if and only ifGhas an embedding in the projective plane such that the chromatic number of the dual triangulationG* is at least 5. As a by-product of the results in this paper, we prove that the list-edge-coloring conjecture holds for cubic graphsGembedded on the projective plane provided that the dualG* is not 4-vertex-colorable.