M-degrees of quadrangle-free planar graphs
M-degrees of quadrangle-free planar graphs
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DOI:
10.1002/jgt.v60:1
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发表时间:
2009
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0.9
通讯作者:
O. Borodin;A. Kostochka;N. Sheikh;Gexin Yu
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作者:
O. Borodin;A. Kostochka;N. Sheikh;Gexin Yu
The M-degree of an edge xy in a graph is the maximum of the degrees of x and y. The M-degree of a graph G is the minimum over M-degrees of its edges. In order to get upper bounds on the game chromatic number, He et al showed that every planar graph G without leaves and 4-cycles has M-degree at most 8 and gave an example of such a graph with M-degree 3. This yields upper bounds on the game chromatic number of C4-free planar graphs. We determine the maximum possible M-degrees for planar, projective-planar and toroidal graphs without leaves and 4-cycles. In particular, for planar and projective-planar graphs this maximum is 7. © 2008 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 60: 80–85, 2009