Planar Graphs with Homomorphisms to the 9-cycle

التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
العنوان: Planar Graphs with Homomorphisms to the 9-cycle
المؤلفون: Cranston, Daniel W., Li, Jiaao, Wang, Zhouningxin, Wei, Chunyan
سنة النشر: 2024
المجموعة: Mathematics
مصطلحات موضوعية: Mathematics - Combinatorics, 05C15, 05C10, 05C21, 05C22
الوصف: We study the problem of finding homomorphisms into odd cycles from planar graphs with high odd-girth. The Jaeger-Zhang conjecture states that every planar graph of odd-girth at least $4k+1$ admits a homomorphism to the odd cycle $C_{2k+1}$. The $k=1$ case is the well-known Gr\"otzsch's $3$-coloring theorem. For general $k$, in 2013 Lov\'asz, Thomassen, Wu, and Zhang showed that it suffices to have odd-girth at least $6k+1$. Improvements are known for $C_5$ and $C_7$ in [Combinatorica 2017, SIDMA 2020, Combinatorica 2022]. For $C_9$ we improve this hypothesis by showing that it suffices to have odd-girth 23. Our main tool is a variation on the potential method applied to modular orientations. This allows more flexibility when seeking reducible configurations. The same techniques also prove some results on circular coloring of signed planar graphs.
Comment: 24 pages, 4 figures
نوع الوثيقة: Working Paper
URL الوصول: http://arxiv.org/abs/2402.02689
رقم الأكسشن: edsarx.2402.02689
قاعدة البيانات: arXiv