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Coloring outerplanar graphs and planar 3-trees with small monochromatic components (1911.10863v1)
Published 25 Nov 2019 in cs.DS and math.CO
Abstract: In this work, we continue the study of vertex colorings of graphs, in which adjacent vertices are allowed to be of the same color as long as each monochromatic connected component is of relatively small cardinality. We focus on colorings with two and three available colors and present improved bounds on the size of the monochromatic connected components for two meaningful subclasses of planar graphs, namely maximal outerplanar graphs and complete planar 3-trees.