Decompositions of Plane Graphs Under Parity Constrains Given by Faces

Abstract

An edge coloring of a plane graph G is facially proper if no two faceadjacent edges of G receive the same color. A facial (facially proper) parity edge coloring of a plane graph G is an (facially proper) edge coloring with the property that, for each color c and each face f of G, either an odd number of edges incident with f is colored with c, or color c does not occur on the edges of f. In this paper we deal with the following question: For which integers k does there exist a facial (facially proper) parity edge coloring of a plane graph G with exactly k colors?

Keywords

• plane graph
• parity partition
• edge coloring