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3‐colorability of 4‐regular hamiltonian graphs
Author(s) -
Fleischner Herbert,
Sabidussi Gert
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
journal of graph theory
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.164
H-Index - 54
eISSN - 1097-0118
pISSN - 0364-9024
DOI - 10.1002/jgt.10079
Subject(s) - mathematics , combinatorics , hamiltonian path , hamiltonian (control theory) , pancyclic graph , discrete mathematics , graph , 1 planar graph , chordal graph , mathematical optimization
On the model of the cycle‐plus‐triangles theorem, we consider the problem of 3‐colorability of those 4‐regular hamiltonian graphs for which the components of the edge‐complement of a given hamiltonian cycle are non‐selfcrossing cycles of constant length ≥ 4. We show that this problem is NP‐complete. © 2002 Wiley Periodicals, Inc. J Graph Theory 42: 125–140, 2003