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15 - Unsolved graph colouring problems

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2015

By
Tommy Jensen  and
Bjarne Toft
Edited by
Lowell W. Beineke  and
Robin J. Wilson
Tommy Jensen
Affiliation:
University of Southern Denmark
Bjarne Toft
Affiliation:
University of Southern Denmark
Lowell W. Beineke
Affiliation:
Purdue University, Indiana
Robin J. Wilson
Affiliation:
The Open University, Milton Keynes
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Summary

Our book Graph Coloring Problems [85] appeared in 1995. It contains descriptions of unsolved problems, organized into sixteen chapters. A large number of publications on graph colouring have appeared since then, and in particular around thirty of the 211 problems in that book have been solved. In this chapter we review some of our favourite problems that remain unsolved.

Introduction

A main reason for the continued interest in the area of graph colouring is its wealth of interesting unsolved problems. Many of these are easy to state, but seemingly difficult to solve. However they are not impossible, as the literature in the field will testify.

The seven most striking results of the past twenty years are:

  1. • the 5-list-colourability of planar graphs (dating back to V. G. Vizing in 1975 and to P. Erdős, A. L. Rubin and H. Taylor in 1979) by Thomassen [159]

  2. • the confirmation by Robertson, Sanders, Seymour and Thomas [137] of the truth of the four-colour theorem (F. Guthrie and A. De Morgan (1852))

  3. • the asymptotic solution by Reed [134] of the problem as to whether for k ≥ 9 there are k-chromatic graphs without complete k-graphs and of maximum degree k (V. G. Vizing (1968) and O. V. Borodin and A. V. Kostochka (1977))

  4. • the proof by Chudnovsky, Robertson, Seymour and Thomas [39] of the strong perfect graph conjecture of C. Berge around 1960

  5. • the proof by Thomassen [161] of the weak 3-flow conjecture of W. T. Tutte (1954) and F. Jaeger (1988)

  6. • the solution by Kostochka and Yancey [111] to the problem of critical graphs with few edges (due to T. Gallai (1963) and O. Ore (1967))

  7. • the description found by Borodin, Dvořák, Kostochka, Lidický and Yancey [24] of all 4-critical planar graphs with exactly four triangles (B. Grünbaum (1963), V. A. Aksenov (1974) and P. Erdős (1990)).

In addition to these major achievements there are many other important results – in fact, thirty-one of the original 211 problems from the lists in Jensen and Toft [85] were solved by 2013.

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