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Three-coloring triangle-free planar graphs in linear time (extended abstract)

Zdenĕk Dvořák, Ken‐ichi Kawarabayashi, Robin Thomas

ACM-SIAM Symposium on Discrete Algorithms (SODA)
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Résumé : Grötzsch's theorem states that every triangle-free planar graph is 3-colorable, and several relatively simple proofs of this fact were provided by Thomassen and other authors. It is easy to convert these proofs into quadratic-time algorithms to find a 3-coloring, but it is not clear how to find such a coloring in linear time (Kowalik used a nontrivial data structure to construct an O(n log n) algorithm). We design a linear-time algorithm to find a 3-coloring of a given triangle-free planar graph. The algorithm avoids using any complex data structures, which makes it easy to implement. As a by-product we give a yet simpler proof of Grötzsch's theorem.

Publié le 04 Jan. 2009