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Kempe Equivalence Classes of Cubic Graphs Embedded on the Projective Plane
Combinatorica ( IF 1.0 ) Pub Date : 2022-05-19 , DOI: 10.1007/s00493-021-4330-2
Kenta Ozeki

A Kempe switch of a 3-edge-coloring of a cubic graph G on a bicolored cycle C swaps the colors on C and gives rise to a new 3-edge-coloring of G. Two 3-edge-colorings of G are Kempe equivalent if they can be obtained from each other by a sequence of Kempe switches. Fisk proved that any two 3-edge-colorings in a cubic bipartite planar graph are Kempe equivalent. In this paper, we obtain an analog of this theorem and prove that all 3-edge-colorings of a cubic bipartite projective-planar graph G are pairwise Kempe equivalent if and only if G has an embedding in the projective plane such that the chromatic number of the dual triangulation G* is at least 5. As a by-product of the results in this paper, we prove that the list-edge-coloring conjecture holds for cubic graphs G embedded on the projective plane provided that the dual G* is not 4-vertex-colorable.



中文翻译:

嵌入射影平面的三次图的Kempe等价类

双色循环C上三次图G的 3 边着色的 Kempe 开关交换C上的颜色并产生G的新 3 边着色。如果G的两个 3 边着色可以通过一系列 Kempe 开关相互获得,则它们是 Kempe 等价的。Fisk 证明了三次二部平面图中的任何两个 3 边着色都是 Kempe 等价的。在本文中,我们获得了该定理的类比,并证明了且仅当G在投影平面中嵌入使得色数对偶三角剖分G* 至少为 5。作为本文结果的副产品,我们证明了列表边着色猜想适用于嵌入在投影平面上的三次图G,前提是对偶G * 不是 4-顶点-可着色。

更新日期:2022-05-20
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