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One More Probabilistic Reformulation of the Four Colour Conjecture

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2010

Yu. MATIYASEVICH
Yu. MATIYASEVICH*
Affiliation:
St. Petersburg Department of Steklov Institute of Mathematics, 27 Fontanka, St. Petersburg 191023, Russia (e-mail: yumat@pdmi.ras.ru)
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Abstract

The paper presents yet another way to reformulate the Four Colour Conjecture as a statement concerning conditional probabilities of certain events involving planar graphs.

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Combinatorics, Probability and Computing , Volume 19 , Issue 5-6: Papers from the 2009 Oberwolfach Meeting on Combinatorics and Probability , November 2010 , pp. 829 - 834
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2010

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