Sam Barr | Searcharxiv

arXiv2021

Efficiently Partitioning the Edges of a 1-Planar Graph into a Planar Graph and a Forest

1-planar graphs are graphs that can be drawn in the plane such that any edge intersects with at most one other edge. Ackerman showed that the edges of a 1-planar graph can be partitioned into a planar graph and a forest, and claims that the proof leads to a linear time algorithm. However, it is not clear how one would obtain such an algorithm from his proof. In this paper, we first reprove Ackerman's result (in fact, we prove a slightly more general statement) and then show that the split can be found in linear time by using an edge-contraction data structure by Holm et al.

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arXiv2021

All Subgraphs of a Wheel are 5-Coupled-Choosable

A wheel graph consists of a cycle along with a center vertex connected to every vertex in the cycle. In this paper we show that every subgraph of a wheel graph has list coupled chromatic number at most 5, and this coloring can be found in linear time. We further show that `5' is tight for every wheel graph with at least 5 vertices, and briefly discuss possible generalizations to planar graphs of treewidth 3.

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