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Excluding 4-wheels

2012/02/16 by Pierre Aboulker, Aboulker, Pierre
Computer Science · Mathematics · #Combinatorics (math.CO) #Discrete Mathematics (cs.DM) #FOS: Computer and information sciences #FOS: Mathematics #cs.DM #math.CO

paper · pdf · doi:10.48550/arxiv.1202.3549

arxiv created 2012/04/18 · arxiv updated 2012/04/19

Abstract

A 4-wheel is a graph formed by a cycle C and a vertex not in C that has at least four neighbors in C. We prove that a graph G that does not contain a 4-wheel as a subgraph is 4-colorable and we describe some structural properties of such a graph.

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